agree
verbUK /əˈɡɹiː/ · US /əˈɡɹi/
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”).
8 senses
- 1To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action…
- 2To give assent; to accede.
- 3To yield assent to; to approve.
- 4To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or…
- 5To resemble; to coincide; to correspond; to tally.
- 6To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.
- 7To correspond to (another word) in a grammatical…
- 8To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.
To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people.
- 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.
4 more examples
- I couldn’t agree more with what you say, but my brother still doesn't quite agree.
- You know that in so great a state as this, Two mightie foes can never well agree.1594, Thomas Lodge, The wounds of civil war: Lively set forth in the true tragedies of Marius and Scilla, page 46:
- Theresa May’s cabinet repeatedly fails to agree with itself on what customs arrangement it wants with the EU after Brexit2018, Jon Stone, “Brexit: No significant progress made on any issue in negotiations since March, says EU (The Independent)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- If music and sweet poetry agree.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:
Followed by "to" To give assent; to accede.
- It was agreed to meet here at midday.
- The workers did not agree to the new terms offered by the trade union.
- We agreed a bargain yesterday.
- ... and there, after a good while in discourse, we did agree a bargain of £5,000 with Sir Roger Cuttance for my Lord Sandwich for silk, cinnamon, ...1666, Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys, page 88:
2 more examples
- The essential idea is that parties should enter the market, choose their contractors, set their own terms and agree a bargain.2005, Paddy McNutt, Law, economics and antitrust: towards a new perspective, page 59:
- Bishops agree sex abuse rules2011 April 3, John Burke, The Sunday Business Post:
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.
- 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 5:25:
- But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matt 20:13:
To resemble; to coincide; to correspond; to tally.
- The picture does not agree with the original.
- The two scales agree exactly.
To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.
Now always with with
- The same food does not agree with every constitution.
Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences To correspond to (another word) in a grammatical category, such as gender, number, case, or person.
- In Romanian, all articles, adjectives, and pronouns agree in gender, number and case with the noun they refer to.
Law To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.
- Synonyms
- Derived terms
- agreeability, agreeable, agreeance, agreement, agreer, agree to disagree, agree with, disagree, misagree, pre-agree, reagree