disagree
/dɪsəˈɡɹiː/ · verb
Meaning
- To fail to agree; to have a different opinion or belief.
- To fail to conform or correspond with.
Etymology / origin
From Middle English disagre (“to refuse to assent to”), from Anglo-Norman disagreer, disagrer, desagreer (“to refuse assent”), from Old French desagreer, desagrëer (“to be disagreeable; to be unpleasant”) (modern French désagréer (“to displease”)); the English word is analysable as dis- + agree.
- désagréer(French)→
- desagreer(Old French)→
- disagreer(xno)→
- disagre(enm)→
- disagree (English)
- Relations: inh, der, der, cog
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