Word Meanings - DISAGREE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To fail to accord; not to agree; to lack harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance. They reject the plainest sense of Scripture, because it seems disagree with what they call reason. Atterbury. 2. To differ in opinion; to

Additional info about word: DISAGREE

1. To fail to accord; not to agree; to lack harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance. They reject the plainest sense of Scripture, because it seems disagree with what they call reason. Atterbury. 2. To differ in opinion; to hold discordant views; to be at controversy; to quarrel. Who shall decide, when doctors disagree Pope. 3. To be unsuited; to have unfitness; as, medicine sometimes disagrees with the patient; food often disagrees with the stomach or the taste. Note: Usually followed by with, sometimes by to, rarely by from; as, I disagree to your proposal. Syn. -- To differ; vary; dissent.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISAGREE)

• Contend
• Strive
• compete
• cope
• dispute
• vie
• contest
• struggle
• grapple
• argue
• maintain
• disagree
• wrangle
• Split
• Divide
• separate
• rive
• cleave
• crack
• splinter
• burst
• rend
• sunder
• secede
• disunite
• Vary
• Alter
• dissimilate
• change
• modify
• variegate
• diversify
• differ
• deviate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DISAGREE)

• Cohere
• hold
• stand
• Conserve
• retain
• stabilitate
• fix
• clinch
• endure
• last

Related words: (words related to DISAGREE)

• MAINTAIN
  by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
• MODIFY
  1. To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms of a contract. 2. To limit or reduce in extent or degree; to moderate; to qualify; to lower.
• SPLIT INFINITIVE
  A simple infinitive with to, having a modifier between the verb and the to; as in, to largely decrease. Called also cleft infinitive.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• BURSTEN
  p. p. of Burst, v. i.
• DIFFERENTIALLY
  In the way of differentiation.
• CRACKAJACK
  1. An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. 2. A preparation of popped corn, candied and pressed into small cakes.
• BURST
  berstan (pers. sing. berste, imp. sing. bærst, imp. pl. burston, p.p. borsten); akin to D. bersten, G. bersten, OHG. brestan, OS. brestan, 1. To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden
• DIVIDER
  An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters.
• ALTERNATING CURRENT
  A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.
• DIVIDEND
  A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated
• ALTERNATION
  Permutation. 3. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. Mason. Alternation of generation. See under Generation. (more info) 1. The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being
• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• SPLITFEET
  The Fissipedia.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• CLEAVER
  One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
• DIFFERENTLY
  In a different manner; variously.
• ARGUE
  1. To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason. I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will. Milton. 2. To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by with; as,
• CONTESTABLE
  Capable of being contested; debatable.
• STRUGGLER
  One who struggles.
• SUBALTERNANT
  A universal proposition. See Subaltern, 2. Whately.
• INDIFFERENCY
  Absence of interest in, or influence from, anything; unconcernedness; equilibrium; indifferentism; indifference. Gladstone. To give ourselves to a detestable indifferency or neutrality in this cause. Fuller. Moral liberty . . . does not, after all,
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• FALTER
  To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• MISALTER
  To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. Bp. Hall.
• SUNBURST
  A burst of sunlight.
• WIT-CRACKER
  One who breaks jests; a joker. Shak.