disagree

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To have a different opinion from someone else.

   I disagree with you about who should pay the bill.

2. 2
   verb

   To be different from or fail to match something.

   My results disagree with the ones in the textbook.

From Middle English disagre (“to refuse to assent to”), 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”)); the English word is analysable as dis- + agree.

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