Agree

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /əˈɡɹiː/

Definitions

1. To have the same opinion as someone else or to say yes to something
2. To share the same viewpoint or consent to a proposal or decision
3. To affirm a shared belief or to provide acknowledgment or approval to a statement or idea

Etymology: The verb "agree" once meant something close to the opposite of modern disagreement in its feel: it was about welcoming and finding something pleasing. Its ancestor in Old French, "agreer", meant "to accept or receive kindly", and the phrase it grew from was "a gré", literally "to one's liking" or "favorably". That phrase combined Latin "ad", meaning "to", with "gratum", meaning "pleasing", so the core idea is that something is welcome to you. English took the word in the Middle Ages as "agreen". Its early sense of accepting something kindly survives in the modern meaning of saying yes to something, while the sense of sharing an opinion grew out of the same idea: two people finding each other's views pleasing enough to accept them. The Latin root "gratum" also gave English "grateful" and "gratitude", so "agree" and "grateful" are distant relatives.

Synonyms: concur, accept, approve, consent, accede

Antonyms: disagree, refuse, deny, oppose, reject