Etimology
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
agree (third-person singular simple present 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.
(intransitive, followed by "to") To give assent; to accede
(transitive, UK, Ireland) 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.
(intransitive) To resemble; to coincide; to correspond.
(intransitive, now always with with) To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.
(intransitive, grammar) To correspond to (another word) in a grammatical category, such as gender, number, case, or person.
(intransitive, law) To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.
Examples
Synonym: 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.
You know that in so great a state as this, Two mightie foes can never well agree.
Theresa May’s cabinet repeatedly fails to agree with itself on what customs arrangement it wants with the EU after Brexit
If music and sweet poetry agree.
For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.
The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you.
to agree to an offer, or to opinion.
The workers did not agree to the new terms offered by the trade union.
... 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, ...
The essential idea is that parties should enter the market, choose their contractors, set their own terms and agree a bargain.
Bishops agree sex abuse rules
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.
But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
the picture does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exactly.
the same food does not agree with every constitution.
Coordinate term: govern
In Romanian, all articles, adjectives, and pronouns agree in gender, number and case with the noun they refer to.
Related words
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
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antonyms
disagree
related terms
gree