disagree

English

Etymology

From Middle English disagre (“to refuse to assent to”),[1] from Anglo-Norman disagreer, disagrer, desagreer (“to refuse assent”), from Old French desagreer, desagrëer (“to be disagreeable; to be unpleasant”) (modern French désagréer (“to displease”));[2] the English word is analysable as dis- +‎ agree.

Pronunciation
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɪsəˈɡɹiː/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • (General American) IPA(key): /dɪsəˈɡɹi/
  • Rhymes: -iː
  • Hyphenation: dis‧a‧gree

Verb

disagree (third-person singular simple present disagrees, present participle disagreeing, simple past and past participle disagreed)

  1. (intransitive) To fail to agree; to have a different opinion or belief.
    Synonym: beg to differ
    John disagreed with Mary frequently.
    Bob says cats are friendlier than dogs, but I disagree.
  2. (intransitive) To fail to conform or correspond with.
    My results in the laboratory consistently disagree with yours.

Usage notes
  • This is generally a stative verb that rarely takes the continuous inflection. See Category:English stative verbs

Derived terms

Translations
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References
  1. “disagrẹ̄, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. “disagree, v.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2017; “disagree, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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