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agree
- /əˈɡɹiː/ UK
- /əˈɡɹi/ US
Rhymes with -iː
Where it comes from
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”).
verb agrees · agreeing · agreed
- 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.
- To give assent; to accede. It was agreed to meet here at midday.
- To yield assent to; to approve. We agreed a bargain yesterday.
- 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.
- To resemble; to coincide; to correspond; to tally. The picture does not agree with the original.
- To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well. The same food does not agree with every constitution.
- 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.
- To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.
Similar: harmonize, come around, give way, assent, deal, engage, agree, accord, meet, coexist, cohere, comprobate
