Disagree I ˌdɪsəˈɡriː People Disagreed Agree Thing Respectfully

• even friends disagree sometimes.
• no, i disagree. i don't think it would be the right thing to do.
• i must respectfully disagree with my colleague.
• victoria and i obviously disagree on this issue.

disagree

Verb Forms

1. if two people disagree or one person disagrees with another about something, they have a different opinion about it
• Even friends disagree sometimes.
• No, I disagree. I don't think it would be the right thing to do.
• I must respectfully disagree with my colleague.
• Victoria and I obviously disagree on this issue.
• He disagreed with his parents on most things.
• I'm afraid I disagree with you on that point.
• Experts disagree over whether the population will be a burden or a boon in the years ahead.
• Jack and Robert disagree about everything.
• I strongly disagree with this decision.
• to disagree with a statement/view/conclusion/policy
• Some people disagree with this argument.
• Few would disagree that students learn best when they are interested in the topic.

Extra Examples

• He and I simply disagree.
• I disagree strongly with this idea.
• I disagree totally with this policy.
• I feel uncomfortable publicly disagreeing with a colleague.
• I flatly disagree with that policy.
• I must respectfully disagree with her on this point.
• I personally disagreed with several elements of the proposal.
• It is difficult to disagree with the chairman on this point.
• Ministers disagree over the scale of the changes.
• The only time we sharply disagreed was over the children's education.
• We disagree on this matter.
• When I pointed out that it had been her idea in the first place, she could hardly disagree.
• No, I disagree. I don't think it would be the right thing to do.
• She disagreed that building more roads was the only way to handle traffic congestion.
2. if statements or reports disagree, they give different information
• The results of the two approaches disagree.
• The two reports disagree on the number of people who will be affected by this change.
• Clinical diagnoses have frequently been reported to disagree with autopsy results.
3. if two people agree to differ/disagree, they accept that they have different opinions about something, but they decide not to discuss it any longer
• We must just agree to differ on this.
• In the end we agreed to disagree.
• I think you're wrong. Let's just agree to differ.

Word Origin

• late 15th cent. (in sense (2), also in the sense ‘refuse to agree to’): from Old French desagreer.