Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To have a differing opinion.
- intransitive verb To dispute or quarrel.
- intransitive verb To fail to correspond.
- intransitive verb To cause adverse effects.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To differ; be not the same or alike; be variant; not to accord or harmonize: as, two ideas or two statements disagree when they are not substantially identical, or when they are not exactly alike; the witnesses disagree.
- To differ in opinion; be at variance; express contrary views: as, the best judges sometimes
disagree . - To be in a state of discord or altercation; wrangle; quarrel.
- To conflict in action or effect; be incompatible or unsuitable: as, food that disagrees with the stomach.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To fail to accord; not to agree; to lack harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance.
- intransitive verb To differ in opinion; to hold discordant views; to be at controversy; to quarrel.
- intransitive verb To be unsuited; to have unfitness
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To not
agree (harmonize ). - verb intransitive To not agree (
conform ,correspond ). - verb intransitive To not agree (
suit ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be different from one another
- verb be of different opinions
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Even Ann Coulter implied that cold blooded murder was OK as long as someone with whom you disagree is the one killed.
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This finding hate everywhere among those who disagree is getting pretty tiring, and harms any argument.
Think Progress » Ron Paul’s Foreign Policy Views Divide Southern Republican Leadership Conference 2010
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As a veteran, a soon-to-be law student, and a daily reader of this blog, the discussions of the legality of this new type of warfare are far more interesting to me than the mistakes and spoils of (almost) conventional warfare, to which no intellectually honest person would disagree is difficult to manage and even harder to analyze in the moment.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Predator Drone Warfare — Assorted Links 2010
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Where we at least seem to disagree is over whether the death bed activities, under the circumstances I describe, really are "signs of repentance", rather than merely taken as such signs for the purposes of getting the man a church funeral.
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I can't tell from here whether we just plain disagree here or whether you wouldn't know mine had milk in them from biting into one.
mrissa: The end of a metaphysical debate mrissa 2010
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Where Dennis Wingo and I disagree is whether EELV or ELV approach is adequate or whether a heavy lifter is necessary to accomplish this lunar based infrastructure development.
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Whether I agree or disagree is unimportant to your point.
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If you left him in there the entire game, then the last drive should have been no different, and whether you agree or disagree is immaterial.
Why bench Donovan McNabb on the most critical drive of the game? LaVar Arrington 2010
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Where I disagree is that this data purports to be data that tracks spending to the last dime.
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If the reason why economists and the public disagree is that their interests diverge, then we should be able to make the disagreement vanish by statistically controlling for differences in interests.
Daily Kos Falls Into My Trap, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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