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disagree

dɪsəˈgri
WordNet
Two philosophers disagree side by side, both holding a book in their hands. Behind them a niche with an oculus at the top.
Two philosophers disagree side by side, both holding a book in their hands. Behind them a niche with an oculus at the top.
  1. (v) disagree
    be of different opinions "I beg to differ!","She disagrees with her husband on many questions"
  2. (v) disagree
    be different from one another
Illustrations
Juno and Jupiter disagree on the answer to the question of which of the sexes has a greater lust for love. So they put the matter to Tiresias, who was once a woman for seven years, and so can weigh both sides of the matter. Tiresias is in his study. There are books on the shelf behind him and the table in front of him. Glasses on the table next to the book. When Tiresias agrees with Jupiter, Juno blinds him. Jupiter eases Juno's punishment and, in his blindness, showed him the future. Two lines of verse in Latin twice under the scene. The print is part of an album.
Juno and Jupiter disagree on the answer to the question of which of the sexes has a greater lust for love. So they put the matter to Tiresias, who was once a woman for seven years, and so can weigh both sides of the matter. Tiresias is in his study. There are books on the shelf behind him and the table in front of him. Glasses on the table next to the book. When Tiresias agrees with Jupiter, Juno blinds him. Jupiter eases Juno's punishment and, in his blindness, showed him the future. Two lines of verse in Latin twice under the scene. The print is part of an album.
Juno and Jupiter (left in the picture) disagree on the answer to the question which of the sexes can experience the greatest pleasure in love. So they put the matter to Tiresias (right in the print), who was once a woman for seven years, and can therefore weigh both sides of the matter. Two lines of Latin text below the image. This print is part of a series of 52 prints depicting stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses. This series is divided into three numbered series: two of 20 prints and one of 12 prints. This print belongs to the third series.
Juno and Jupiter (left in the picture) disagree on the answer to the question which of the sexes can experience the greatest pleasure in love. So they put the matter to Tiresias (right in the print), who was once a woman for seven years, and can therefore weigh both sides of the matter. Two lines of Latin text below the image. This print is part of a series of 52 prints depicting stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses. This series is divided into three numbered series: two of 20 prints and one of 12 prints. This print belongs to the third series.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Disagree
    To differ in opinion; to hold discordant views; to be at controversy; to quarrel. "Who shall decide, when doctors disagree ?"
  2. Disagree
    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 to disagree with what they call reason."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. disagree
    To differ; be not the same or alike; be variant; not to accord or harmonize: as, two ideas or two statements disagree when they are not substantially identical, or when they are not exactly alike; the witnesses disagree.
  2. disagree
    To differ in opinion; be at variance; express contrary views: as, the best judges sometimes disagree.
  3. disagree
    To be in a state of discord or altercation; wrangle; quarrel.
  4. disagree
    To conflict in action or effect; be incompatible or unsuitable: as, food that disagrees with the stomach. Synonyms To vary (from).
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (v.i) Disagree
    dis-a-grē′ to differ or be at variance: to dissent: to quarrel: to prove unsuitable or a source of annoyance, as of food disagreeing with the stomach
Quotations
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
Frank Moore Colby
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
John Keats
A gentleman is a man who can disagree without being disagreeable.
Source Unknown
Phaedrus
The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.
Phaedrus
Darryl F. Zanuck
If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.
Darryl F. Zanuck
Samuel Johnson
Count on it, if a person talks of their misfortune, there is something in it that is not disagreeable to them.
Samuel Johnson
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Pref. dis-, + agree,: cf. F. désagréer, to displease

Usage in the news

Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist disagreed with the notion that the congressman would feel pressure to water down his own principles in order to portray himself as a pragmatic dealmaker. theatlantic.com

S Court of Appeals disagreed with the West Virginia insurance commissioner that the OCC had overstepped its authority. icba.org

One of the few lawmakers who hasn't been shy about publicly voicing his criticism of Gov Andrew Cuomo (and pretty much anyone else – and there are many – with whom he disagrees), had some rare words of praise for his fellow Demo. blog.timesunion.com

Libya, US Disagree on Whether Benghazi Attack Was Premeditated . slate.com

I disagree with The Times' criticism of the. latimes.com

OPINION Though Mitt Romney appears to disagree, it's a refreshing change for the Olympics to actually take place in its host city. ashingtonpost.com

Judge says CFTC doesn't have to pass useless rules CFTC disagrees. online.wsj.com

Your honour, we respectfully disagree. thestar.com

As health care providers we are called to respect our patients even if we disagree with their lifestyle or beliefs. chiroweb.com

But lower courts have disagreed on the question, citing an 1871 law that says when Congress means for a change to apply retroactively , it must "expressly provide" for that. ashingtonpost.com

I've seen these statistics before but (once again) I have to disagree with your conclusions. designnews.com

In tackling a child support case involving a teenager's emancipation, Indiana Court of Appeals judges disagree on what state statute defines as "enrolled" in college. theindianalawyer.com

"We have to permit those that we disagree with to have freedom of speech so that we can still have our freedom of speech.". mountainx.com

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver disagrees with Mayor Bloomberg's criticism that the just-adopted state budget is unfair to the city. blog.timesunion.com

Farm Litigants Disagree Over Proposed Site Visit . mdcoastdispatch.com

Usage in scientific papers

Both procedures give surprisingly similar results and disagree with data.
Modelling Bose-Einstein effect from asymmetric sources in Monte Carlo generators

The cell model predictions for the osmotic properties disagree with predictions based on simple condensation theory, but are in surprisingly good harmony with experimental findings.
Osmotic Properties of Charged Cylinders: Critical Evaluation of Counterion Condensation Theory

This discrepancy was sharpened by Helling, Plefka, Serone, and Waldron (1999), who performed a two-loop calculation in a threegraviton background, and showed that the tensor structure of the v8 /r18 terms disagrees with that expected from a R4 correction to gravity.
M(atrix) Theory: Matrix Quantum Mechanics as a Fundamental Theory

Predictions made by structure evolution theories based on the ΛCDM model disagree with some galaxy observations, which suggests that, for the model to hold, assumptions made about the properties of CDM particles must be modified (see e.g.
CMB Constraints on a Baryonic Dark Matter-Dominated Universe

The observed value is consistent with other experimental random-field critical exponents, but disagrees sharply with Monte Carlo and exact ground state calculations on finite-sized systems.
Order Parameter Criticality of the d=3 Random-Field Ising Antiferromagnet Fe(0.85)Zn(0.15)F2

Usage in literature

This was disagreeable; but the Earl was a man of the world, and a sanguine man withal. "The Young Duke" by Benjamin Disraeli

It was, in fact, not so very disagreeable after all. "The Citizen-Soldier" by John Beatty

I'm a sour, disagreeable old thing. "The Independence of Claire" by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

There was no work, however hard and disagreeable, that he would not undertake. "Pushing to the Front" by Orison Swett Marden

The shrubbery pricked him like barbed wire and a scratch along his cheek bled most disagreeably. "Blacksheep! Blacksheep!" by Meredith Nicholson

Boats were procured, and the drenched pickets were removed from their disagreeable positions. "Three Years in the Sixth Corps" by George T. Stevens

Pardon me for disagreeing. "Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore" by Pauline Lester

Considering that they disagreed about almost everything, it was odd what friends he and she were! "Good Old Anna" by Marie Belloc Lowndes

Is this marriage at all disagreeable to him, on account of his intimacy with this foreign woman? "The Comedies of Terence" by Publius Terentius Afer, (AKA) Terence

He came here without an invitation, and made himself very disagreeable to you. "Paul Patoff" by F. Marion Crawford

Usage in poetry
The law and gospel disagree,
Like Hagar, Sarah, bond and free:
The former's Hagar's servitude,
The latter Sarah's happy brood.
"The Believer's Principles : Chap. II." by Ralph Erskine Author object (545)
My dear and I, we disagreed
When we had been much time together.
For when will lovers learn to sail
From sailing always in good weather?
"Overtures" by John Crowe Ransom Author object (368)
I would not waken you: nay! this is fitter;
Death and the darkness give you unto me;
Here we who loved so, were so cold and bitter,
Hardly can disagree.
""You would have understood me, had you waited"" by Ernest Christopher Dowson Author object (191)
You would have understood me, had you waited;
I could have loved you, dear! as well as he:
Had we not been impatient, dear! and fated
Always to disagree.
""You would have understood me, had you waited"" by Ernest Christopher Dowson Author object (191)
Had we been patient, dear! ah, had you waited,
I had fought death for you, better than he:
But from the very first, dear! we were fated
Always to disagree.
""You would have understood me, had you waited"" by Ernest Christopher Dowson Author object (191)
Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Just a word i' thi ear,--
Aw hooap we shall net disagree;
But aw'm foorced to admit as aw watch thi each year,
At tha seems a big humbug to me.
"Cuckoo!" by John Hartley