agree
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English agreen, from Old French agreer, from a gré ("favorably"), from Latin ad + gratum, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-.
Pronunciation Verbagree (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.
- 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.
- (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.
- (harmonize in opinion) concur, harmonize; See also Thesaurus:agree
- (yield assent) accede, come around, give way; See also Thesaurus:accede or Thesaurus:assent
- (yield assent to) approve, set
- (come to terms or to a common resolve) bargain, deal, engage; See also Thesaurus:bargain
- (be conformable) coincide, correspond, match, resemble
- (do well) fit, suit
- (grammar)
- (law)
- French: être d'accord, consentir
- German: zustimmen, einverstanden sein
- Italian: essere d'accordo, concordare
- Portuguese: concordar, estar de acordo
- Russian: соглаша́ться
- Spanish: estar de acuerdo, coincidir, concordar, acordar
- German: akzeptieren, annehmen
- Portuguese: aceitar
- Russian: соглаша́ться
- Spanish: acceder, asentir
- German: sich verständigen
- Italian: accordarsi
- Portuguese: concordar
- Russian: догова́риваться
- Spanish: consensuar
- French: concorder
- Italian: corrispondere, concordare
- Portuguese: concordar
- Russian: соотве́тствовать
- Spanish: concordar
- Russian: подходи́ть
- French: accorder
- German: kongruieren, übereinstimmen; (uncommon) nachfolgen
- Italian: concordare
- Portuguese: concordar
- Russian: согласо́вываться
- Spanish: concordar
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