different between amical vs agree

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French amical, from Latin amicalis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?a.m?kl/, /?a.m?.k?l/

Adjective

amical (comparative more amical, superlative most amical)

1. (now rare) Friendly, amicable.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 172:

     The Encyclopédie pulled through this crisis mainly through the amical assistance of Malesherbes, councillor in the Paris Cour des Aides, a member of the Lamoignon clan, and official Director of the Book Trade.

Anagrams

• Lamica, Milaca, calami, camail, lamaic

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin amicalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.mi.kal/

Adjective

amical (feminine singular amicale, masculine plural amicaux, feminine plural amicales)

1. friendly, amicable

Derived terms

• amicalement

Related terms

• ami
• amicaliste
• amitié

Further reading

• “amical” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• calmai
• clamai

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French amical, Latin amicalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.mi?kal/

Adjective

amical m or n (feminine singular amical?, masculine plural amicali, feminine and neuter plural amicale)

1. friendly, amicable

Declension

Synonyms

• amabil
• prietenos

Related terms

• amic

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin amical.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ami?kal/, [a.mi?kal]

Noun

amical m (plural amicales)

1. (sports) friendly

Related terms

• amigo

English

Etymology

From Middle English agreen, from Old French agreer (“to accept or receive kindly”), from a gré (“favorably”), from Latin ad (“to”) + gratum (“pleasing”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?-gr?', IPA^(key): /????i?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /????i/
• Rhymes: -i?
• Hyphenation: a?gree

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, a sonnet in The Passionate Pilgrim

     If music and sweet poetry agree.

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

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

2. (intransitive) To yield assent; to accede;—followed by to.

3. (transitive, Britain, Ireland) To yield assent to; to approve.
   • 2011 April 3, John Burke, in 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.

   • 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.

   • 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 be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond.

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

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

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

Usage notes

• 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".

Synonyms

• (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
• (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):

Antonyms

• disagree

Derived terms

• disagree
• agreement

Related terms

• gree

Translations

Further reading

• agree in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• agree in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

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

Middle English

Verb

agree

1. Alternative form of agreen