Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A failure or refusal to agree.
- n. A disparity; an inconsistency.
- n. A conflict or difference of opinion.
- n. A quarrel.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Want of agreement; difference, either in form or in essence; dissimilitude; diversity; unlikeness: as, the disagreement of two ideas, of two stories, or of any two objects in some respects similar.
- n. Difference of opinion or sentiments.
- n. Unsuitableness; unfitness; lack of conformity.
- n. A falling out; a wrangle; contention.
- n. Synonyms Distinction, Diversity, etc. (see difference); unlikeness, discrepancy.
- n. Variance, misunderstanding, dissension, division, dispute, jarring, clashing, strife.
Wiktionary
- n. An argument or debate.
- n. A condition of not agreeing or concurring.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state of disagreeing; a being at variance; dissimilitude; diversity.
- n. rare Unsuitableness; unadaptedness.
- n. Difference of opinion or sentiment.
- n. A falling out, or controversy; difference.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing
- n. a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
- n. a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions
Etymologies
- From dis- + agreement or disagree + -ment (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Anything in disagreement is wrong, and anything in agreement is redundant.”
“In brief, the Kazakh language bloggers 'main disagreement is that this draft law would make it possible to ban a blog for any reason, while bloggers would have no rights.”
Global Voices in English » Kazakhstan: Kazakh bloggers against online censorship
“The heart of the disagreement is the "international currency war," as Guido Mantega, the Brazilian finance minister, called it three weeks ago.”
The Huffington Post: Garrett Johnson: The Crowning Failure of the Old Governments
“No, the disagreement is about whether affirmative action is a corrective to centuries of injustice that may have ceased to be useful, or whether affirmative action is itself an injustice perpetrated against the oppressed white race by a cabal of overprivileged minorities and the powerful liberal elite.”
“Thus our disagreement is a matter of degree, not kind.”
Waldo Jaquith - Brownlee rebuffed DoJ demands to go easy on OxyContin maker.
“Oh, Ana, I disagree -- and my disagreement is about substance rather than positioning.”
“If one doesn't agree with that foundational structure, I suppose they could perceive that the disagreement is an attack.”
“But the disagreement is almost always over how best to allocate public resources.”
“The president of the Denver chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners has resigned, citing what she described as a disagreement with some board members over the group's future options.”
Denver Business News - Local Denver News | Denver Business Journal
“IIHS and NHTSA in disagreement over perils of texting while driving.”
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Escalation
A meeting of minds and emotions and fists
melee, riot, rumble, brawl, free-for-all, pandemonium, fray, fracas, a row and a ruction, tussle, ruckus, rumpus and 33 more...
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That's Not Amore
Words about the opposite of love. It hurts, man, it hurts!
hate, divorce, breakup, dissolution, separation, split, schism, annulment, division, heartbreak, apathy, disagreement and 2 more...
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the warmonger
war, battle, fight, throwdown, skirmish, altercation, brawl, conflict, clash, dust-up, sortie, onslaught and 24 more...
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