disagree

verb
/dɪsəˈɡɹiː/UK/dɪsəˈɡɹi/US

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from desagreer
  2. derived from disagreer
  3. inherited from disagre — “to refuse to assent to

Definitions

  1. To fail to agree

    To fail to agree; to have a different opinion or belief.

    • John disagreed with Mary frequently.
    • Bob says cats are friendlier than dogs, but I disagree.
  2. To fail to conform or correspond with.

    • My results in the laboratory consistently disagree with yours.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at disagree. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at disagree. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at disagree

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA