agree
Americanverb (used without object)
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agrees,
present (3rd person singular)
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agreed,
past participle, past
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agreeing
present participle
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to have the same views, emotions, etc.; harmonize in opinion or feeling (often followed bywith ).
I don't agree with you.
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to give consent; assent (often followed byto ).
He agreed to accompany the ambassador.
Do you agree to the conditions?
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to live in concord or without contention; get along together.
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to come to one opinion or mind; come to an arrangement or understanding; arrive at a settlement.
They have agreed on the terms of surrender.
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to be consistent; harmonize (usually followed bywith ).
This story agrees with hers.
- Antonyms:
- disagree
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to correspond; conform; resemble (usually followed bywith ).
The play does not agree with the book.
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to be suitable; comply with a preference or an ability to digest (usually followed bywith ).
The food did not agree with me.
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Grammar. to correspond in inflectional form, as in number, case, gender, or person; to show agreement. In The boy runs, boy is a singular noun and runs agrees with it in number.
verb (used with object)
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agrees,
present (3rd person singular)
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agreed,
past participle, past
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agreeing
present participle
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to concede; grant (usually followed by a noun clause).
I agree that he is the ablest of us.
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Chiefly British. to consent to or concur with.
We agree the stipulations.
I must agree your plans.
verb
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(often foll by with) to be of the same opinion; concur
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(also tr; when intr, often foll by to; when tr, takes a clause as object or an infinitive) to give assent; consent
she agreed to go home
I'll agree to that
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(also tr; when intr, foll by on or about; when tr, may take a clause as object) to come to terms (about); arrive at a settlement (on)
they agreed a price
they agreed on the main points
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(foll by with) to be similar or consistent; harmonize; correspond
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(foll by with) to be agreeable or suitable (to one's health, temperament, etc)
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(tr; takes a clause as object) to concede or grant; admit
they agreed that the price they were asking was too high
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(tr) to make consistent with
to agree the balance sheet with the records by making adjustments, writing off, etc
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grammar to undergo agreement
Synonym Usage
Agree, consent, accede, assent, concur all suggest complying with the idea, sentiment, or action of someone. Agree, the general term, suggests compliance in response to any degree of persuasion or opposition: to agree to go; to agree to a meeting, to a wish, request, demand, ultimatum. Consent, applying to rather important matters, conveys an active and positive idea; it implies making a definite decision to comply with someone's expressed wish: to consent to become engaged. Accede, a more formal word, also applies to important matters and implies a degree of yielding to conditions: to accede to terms. Assent conveys a more passive idea; it suggests agreeing intellectually or verbally with someone's assertion, request, etc.: to assent to a speaker's theory, to a proposed arrangement. To concur is to show accord in matters of opinion, as of minds independently running along the same channels: to concur in a judgment about a painting. See correspond.
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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agreesimple
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agreessimple
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have agreedperfect
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has agreedperfect
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am agreeingprogressive
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are agreeingprogressive
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is agreeingprogressive
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have been agreeingperfect progressive
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has been agreeingperfect progressive
Past
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agreedsimple
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had agreedperfect
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was agreeingprogressive
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were agreeingprogressive
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had been agreeingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of agree
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English agre, agreen, from Anglo-French, Old French agre(e)r, from phrase a gre “at pleasure, at will” (from a “to, at,” from Latin ad ad- ( def. ) ); gre “pleasure, will,” from Latin grātum ( see gree 2 ( def. ))
Explanation
When you agree with someone, you share the same opinion, feeling, or purpose, like when you agree on the movie you will go see on Saturday afternoon. If we were living in 12th century France, we might use the phrase a gré to describe things that are favorable or go well for us. This positive outcome is still part of the verb agree, because if people agree with you, your plan or idea is the one that will be used. In grammar, subjects and verbs agree when they are both singular or both plural. For example, "everyone is here" agrees but "everyone are here" does not.
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Example Sentences
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Most agree that the zeitgeist of rap started to shift away from the stubbornly anachronistic rapper sometime around the end of the aughts.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
Now he says he’s worried that if we can’t agree on something this basic, we won’t be able to retire together.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
She made headlines last year by getting the previous Welsh Labour government to agree to a greyhound racing ban and £1 bus fares for under-21s in return for helping it pass its budget.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
According to a 2023 post on Anthropic’s website, shareholders can modify the trust and its powers without trustees’ consent if “sufficiently large supermajorities” agree.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
“You are! What is it you think friends do? They don’t agree on everything! But they want good for each other, that’s all. That’s all it means to be a friend.”
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
The first media member agrees, saying, “He’s a good-looking dude. His skin is, like, so smooth, I was like, damn, no tattoos?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Silence Therapeutics stock surges as Merck KGaA agrees to acquire the RNA drugmaker for over $1 billion.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
A24 agrees to this, but Fielder is skeptical as to whether Holmes was aware of this ask, based on footage where she claims not to be making any money from the documentary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
This agrees with earlier observations made by instruments studying the Moon remotely.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
None of my basketball teammates were injured, so I consider football season to be a complete success and I know that Coach agrees.
From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick
Has she agreed to a plan to repay him?
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
In their role as executors, Indyke and Kahn agreed to fund compensation packages for survivors that included conditions that prevented survivors who accepted funds from taking further legal action against them personally.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
The penalty comes a couple of months after Meta agreed to pay $18 billion to settle claims brought by 48 other states, including allegations tied to Cambridge Analytica.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
In August, Meta settled with 48 states for up to $18 billion and agreed to make a number of changes to the way its platforms operate accounts for teens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
I nodded, and for once, I actually agreed.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
The two men, however, “had such a good time agreeing with each other,” Mr. Steinmetz writes, that Mellon never handed in the letter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
The company settled the case by agreeing to pay a $125-million fine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
Circuit Court of Appeals, but in April 2025, a divided three-judge panel affirmed the dismissal, agreeing with the district court that Salazar’s newsletter subscription didn’t make him a subscriber under the law.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026
You can acknowledge that without agreeing to change your will.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Here again I found the tally agreeing exactly; the carriers’ men were able to supplement the paucity of the written words with a few details.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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