DISAGREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disagree mean? 

• DISAGREE (verb)
  The verb DISAGREE has 2 senses:

1. be of different opinions

2. be different from one another

  Familiarity information: DISAGREE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISAGREE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they disagree    ... he / she / it disagrees   
Past simple: disagreed   
Past participle: disagreed   
-ing form: disagreeing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be of different opinions

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

differ; disagree; dissent; take issue

Context example:

She disagrees with her husband on many questions

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disagree"):

dissent (withhold assent)

clash (disagree violently)

contradict; contravene; negate (deny the truth of)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s on something

Antonym:

agree (be in accord; be in agreement)

Derivation:

disagreement (the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing)

disagreement (a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be different from one another

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

disaccord; disagree; discord

Hypernyms (to "disagree" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Antonym:

agree (be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics)

 Context examples 

And now he learned that evolution was no mere theory but an accepted process of development; that scientists no longer disagreed about it, their only differences being over the method of evolution.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But a growing number of skeptics disagree.

(Study Shows Average Consumption of Salt Good for Heart Health, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Jo Anne Val Tilburg of the University of California, Los Angeles disagreed with these findings: The existence of fresh water seeps near coastal ahu is well-known and was certainly important at European contact.

(Scientists report correlation between locations of Easter Island statues and water resources, Wikinews)

You can ask Dr. Van Helsing if I am not right; if he disagrees you may do as you will.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I have always been blessed with excellent health, and no climate disagrees with me.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

As to men and women, our opinions are sometimes very different; but with regard to these children, I observe we never disagree.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I thoroughly understand you, cried Mrs. Norris, you are everything that is generous and considerate, and I am sure we shall never disagree on this point.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

There are points in it with which I disagree, and it has been my duty to indicate them as they arose, but, none the less, Mr. Waldron has accomplished his object well, that object being to give a simple and interesting account of what he conceives to have been the history of our planet.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They disagreed about love, and the magazines, and many things, but they liked each other, and on Martin's part it was no less than a profound liking.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I do not think it could disagree with you.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)