to correspond; conform; resemble (usually followed by with): 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 by with): 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.
Origin: 1350–1400; Middle English agre, agreen < Anglo-French, Old French agre(e)r from phrase a gre at pleasure, at will; a < Latin ad to, at; gre < Latin grātum (see gree2)
Related forms
a·gree·ing·ly, adverb
in·ter·a·gree, verb (used with object), -greed, -gree·ing.
pre·a·gree, verb (used without object), -greed, -gree·ing.
Synonyms 1.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. 5.See correspond.
late 14c., from O.Fr. agreer "to receive with favor," from phrase a gré "favorably, of good will," lit. "to (one's) liking," from L. ad "to" + gratum "pleasing," neut. of gratus (see grace); the original sense survives best in agreeable.