agreeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈɡɹiː/, enPR: ə-grē'
• (General American) IPA: /əˈɡɹi/
• ハイフネーション: a‧gree
• 韻: -iː

動詞

agree (third-person singular simple present agrees, present participle agreeing, simple past and past participle agreed)

1. (intransitive) To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people.

   Synonym: concur

   All parties agree in the expediency of the law.

   I mostly agree with what you said, but I consider your last point to be unfair.

   I couldn’t agree more with what you say, but my brother still doesn't quite agree.

   • 1594, Thomas Lodge, The wounds of civil war: Lively set forth in the true tragedies of Marius and Scilla, page 46:

     You know that in so great a state as this, Two mightie foes can never well agree.

   • 2018, Jon Stone, “Brexit: No significant progress made on any issue in negotiations since March, says EU (The Independent)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎:

     Theresa May’s cabinet repeatedly fails to agree with itself on what customs arrangement it wants with the EU after Brexit

   • 1599, “(please specify the chapter or poem)”, in The Passionate Pilgrime. […], 2nd edition, London: […] [Thomas Judson] for W[illiam] Iaggard, and are to be sold by W[illiam] Leake, […], →OCLC:

     If music and sweet poetry agree.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 14:56:

     For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.

   • 1725–1726, Homer, “(please specify the book or chapter of the Odyssey)”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:

     The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you.

2. (intransitive, followed by "to") To give assent; to accede.

   It was agreed to meet here at midday.

   The workers did not agree to the new terms offered by the trade union.

3. (transitive, UK, Ireland) To yield assent to; to approve.
   • 1666, Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys, page 88:

     ... and there, after a good while in discourse, we did agree a bargain of £5,000 with Sir Roger Cuttance for my Lord Sandwich for silk, cinnamon, ...

   • 2005, Paddy McNutt, Law, economics and antitrust: towards a new perspective, page 59:

     The essential idea is that parties should enter the market, choose their contractors, set their own terms and agree a bargain.

   • 2011 April 3, John Burke, The Sunday Business Post:

     Bishops agree sex abuse rules

4. (intransitive) To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matt 5:25:

     Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matt 20:13:

     But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?

5. (intransitive) To resemble; to coincide; to correspond; to tally.

   The picture does not agree with the original.

   The two scales agree exactly.

6. (intransitive, now always with with) To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.

   The same food does not agree with every constitution.

7. (intransitive, grammar) To correspond to (another word) in a grammatical category, such as gender, number, case, or person.

   Coordinate term: govern

   In Romanian, all articles, adjectives, and pronouns agree in gender, number and case with the noun they refer to.

8. (intransitive, law) To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.

使用する際の注意点

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
• This is a stative verb that rarely takes the continuous inflection. See Category:English stative verbs
• The transitive usage could be considered as just an omission of to or upon.
• US and Canadian English do not use the transitive form. Thus "they agreed on a price" or "they agreed to the conditions" are used in North America but not "they agreed a price" or "they agreed the conditions".

同意語

• (harmonize in opinion): concur, harmonize; See also Thesaurus:agree
• (yield assent): accede, come around, give way; See also Thesaurus:accede or Thesaurus:assent
• (yield assent to): approve, set, strike
• (come to terms or to a common resolve): bargain, deal, engage; See also Thesaurus:bargain
• (be conformable): coincide, correspond, match, resemble
• (do well): fit, suit
• (grammar):
• (law):
• (be consistent): comport,

反意語

• disagree

派生語

関連する語

• gree

Further reading

• “agree”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “agree”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Eager, aeger, eager, eagre, geare, æger