agree

Verb

Verb Forms: agreed, agreeing, agrees

• To have the same opinion or consent to something.
• be in accord; be in agreement
  • "We agreed on the terms of the settlement"
  • "I can't agree with you!"
• consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something
  • "She agreed to all my conditions"
  • "He agreed to leave her alone"
• be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
  • "The two stories don't agree in many details"
• go together
• show grammatical agreement
  • "Subjects and verbs must always agree in English"
• be agreeable or suitable
  • "White wine doesn't agree with me"
• achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose
  • "No two of my colleagues would agree on whom to elect chairman"
• To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people.
• To give assent; to accede
• To yield assent to; to approve.
• 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.
• To resemble; to coincide; to correspond; to tally.
• To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.
• To correspond to (another word) in a grammatical category, such as gender, number, case, or person.
• To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.

Examples

• All parties agree in the expediency of the law.
• I couldn’t agree more with what you say, but my brother still doesn't quite agree.
• I mostly agree with what you said, but I consider your last point to be unfair.
• In Romanian, all articles, adjectives, and pronouns agree in gender, number and case with the noun they refer to.
• It was agreed to meet here at midday.
• The picture does not agree with the original.
• The same food does not agree with every constitution.
• The two scales agree exactly.
• The workers did not agree to the new terms offered by the trade union.
• We can all agree that playing a phony word and getting away with it is the best feeling.

Synonyms

accord, check, concord, concur, consort, correspond, fit, fit in, gibe, harmonise, harmonize, hold, jibe, match, tally, accede, agree, approve, assent, bargain, coexist, cohere, coincide, come around, comport, comprobate, consent, deal, engage, give way, meet, resemble, set, strike, suit

Antonyms

disagree, clash, jar

Related Words

agreeable, agreement, assent, gree