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DISAGREE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be of different opinions

Example:

She disagrees with her husband on many questions

Synonyms:

differ; disagree; dissent; take issue

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

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

Synonyms:

disaccord; disagree; discord

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

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)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The two ladies, even in the short time they had been together, had disagreed; and the bitterness of the elder against her daughter-in-law might perhaps arise almost as much from the personal disrespect with which she had herself been treated as from sensibility for her son.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I think we shall never materially disagree about the writer again; but I will not delay you by a long preface.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Perry was an intelligent, gentlemanlike man, whose frequent visits were one of the comforts of Mr. Woodhouse's life; and upon being applied to, he could not but acknowledge (though it seemed rather against the bias of inclination) that wedding-cake might certainly disagree with many—perhaps with most people, unless taken moderately.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)