agree

agree

synonyms, antonyms, definitions, examples & translations of agree in English

English Online Dictionary. What means agree‎? What does agree mean?

English

Etymology

From Middle English agreen, from Old French agreer (to accept or receive kindly), from a gré (favorably), from Latin ad (to) + gratum (pleasing), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (to welcome, greet, praise).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ə-grē', IPA(key): /əˈɡɹiː/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /əˈɡɹi/
  • Rhymes: -iː
  • Hyphenation: a‧gree

Verb

agree (third-person singular simple present agrees, present participle agreeing, simple past and past participle agreed)

  1. (intransitive) To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people.
    Synonym: concur
  2. (intransitive, followed by "to") To give assent; to accede
  3. (transitive, UK, Ireland) To yield assent to; to approve.
  4. (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.
  5. (intransitive) To resemble; to coincide; to correspond.
  6. (intransitive, now always with with) To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.
  7. (intransitive, grammar) To correspond to (another word) in a grammatical category, such as gender, number, case, or person.
    Coordinate term: govern
  8. (intransitive, law) To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.

Usage notes

  • This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
  • This is a stative verb that rarely takes the continuous inflection. See Category:English stative verbs
  • The transitive usage could be considered as just an omission of to or upon.
  • US and Canadian English do not use the transitive form. Thus "they agreed on a price" or "they agreed to the conditions" are used in North America but not "they agreed a price" or "they agreed the conditions".

Synonyms

  • (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):

Antonyms

  • disagree

Derived terms

  • agree to disagree
  • agreeable
  • agreer
  • agree with
  • disagree
  • agreement
  • pre-agree

Related terms

  • gree

Translations

Further reading

  • “agree”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “agree”, in The Century Dictionary [], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • Eager, aeger, eager, eagre, geare, æger

Galo

Noun

agree

  1. rainbow

Middle English

Verb

agree

  1. Alternative form of agreen

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English agreen, from Old French agreer.

Verb

agree (third-person singular simple present agrees, present participle agreein, simple past agreed, past participle agreed)

  1. to consent to
  2. (occasionally) to suffer no injury from (sth)

References

  • “agree, v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Bookmark
share
WebDictionary.net is an Free English Dictionary containing information about the meaning, synonyms, antonyms, definitions, translations, etymology and more.

Browse the English Dictionary

A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z

License

This article based on an article on Wiktionary. The list of authors can be seen in the page history there. The original work has been modified. This article is distributed under the terms of this license.