Dictionary

agree

Etymology

From Middle English agreen, from Old French agreer, from a gré ("favorably"), from Latin ad + gratum, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-.

Pronunciation

(RP) enPR: ə-grē', IPA: /əˈɡɹiː/
(America) IPA: /əˈɡɹi/

Verb

agree (agrees, present participle agreeing; simple past and past participle agreed)

(intransitive) To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people.
Synonyms: concur
All parties agree in the expediency of the law.
I mostly agree with what you said, but I consider your last point to be unfair.
I couldn’t agree more with what you say.
- 1599, “(please specify the chapter or poem)”, in The Passionate Pilgrime. […], 2nd edition, London: […] [Thomas Judson] for W[illiam] Iaggard, and are to be sold by W[illiam] Leake, […], →OCLC ↗:
  If music and sweet poetry agree.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC ↗, Mark 14:56 ↗:
  For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.
- 1725–1726, Homer, “(please specify the book or chapter of the Odyssey)”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, and Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC ↗:
  The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you.
(intransitive, followed by "to") To give assent; to accede
to agree to an offer or an opinion
The workers did not agree to the new terms offered by the trade union.
(transitive, UK, Irish) To yield assent to; to approve.
(intransitive) To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC ↗, Matt 5:25 ↗:
  Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC ↗, Matt 20:13 ↗:
  But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
(intransitive) To resemble; to coincide; to correspond; to tally.
The picture does not agree with the original.
The two scales agree exactly.
(intransitive, now always with with) To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.
The same food does not agree with every constitution.
(intransitive, grammar) To correspond to (another word) in a grammatical category, such as gender, number, case, or person.
Coordinate term: govern
In Romanian, all articles, adjectives, and pronouns agree in gender, number and case with the noun they refer to.
(intransitive, legal) To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.