different between disagreer vs disagree

English

Etymology

disagree +? -er

Noun

disagreer (plural disagreers)

1. One who disagrees.
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Hammond to this entry?), Works, vol. ii. pt. i. p. 605

     Sir, is not that a strange answer, in you, that know there is fire to awe disagreers in all matters of faith?

   • 2014, Karen Glaser, Inductive or Deductive?

     Accordingly, any instance of disagreement involves a potential burden on the speaker (rather than the hearer) which a disagreer has to gauge and which influences whether and how the disagreement will eventually be performed.

English

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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?s????i?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?s????i/
• Rhymes: -i?
• Hyphenation: dis?a?gree

Verb

disagree (third-person singular simple present disagrees, present participle disagreeing, simple past and past participle disagreed)

1. (intransitive) To fail to agree; to have a different opinion or belief.

   Synonym: beg to differ

2. (intransitive) To fail to conform or correspond with.

Usage notes

• This is generally a stative verb that rarely takes the continuous inflection. See Category:English stative verbs

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