Crossword clues for disagreement
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disagreement \Dis`a*gree"ment\ (d[i^]s`[.a]*gr[=e]"ment), n. [Cf. F. d['e]sagr['e]ment disagreeable circumstance, disagreeableness.]
The state of disagreeing; a being at variance; dissimilitude; diversity.
Unsuitableness; unadaptedness. [R.]
Difference of opinion or sentiment.
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A falling out, or controversy; difference.
Syn: Difference; diversity; dissimilitude; unlikeness; discrepancy; variance; dissent; misunderstanding; dissension; division; dispute; jar; wrangle; discord.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 An argument or debate. 2 A condition of not agreeing or concurring.
WordNet
n. a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters [syn: dissension, dissonance] [ant: agreement]
a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions; "a growing divergence of opinion" [syn: discrepancy, divergence, variance]
the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing [ant: agreement]
Usage examples of "disagreement".
After all, if we coolly consider those arguments which have been bandied about, and retorted with such eagerness and acrimony in the house of commons, and divest them of those passionate tropes and declamatory metaphors which the spirit of opposition alone had produced, we shall find very little left for the subject of dispute, and sometimes be puzzled to discover any material source of disagreement.
Vonier had had good reason for his admiration for and his disagreement with Carberry, the financier, over a treatise Carberry had written.
When we found the larder so bare, there fell out an ugly disagreement between the Colonel and the Escapee over Sybil, who looked like a good dinner to the one but, for the other, lay under the protection of the taboo against the slaughter of beasts whom we love.
I have been talking with the Hoppo in an effort to settle the disagreement.
Avenue Club, thus making it possible for Harry to introduce himself to the very environment wherein Orvill and Laverock had voiced their disagreement.
Moon came out of his sleep slowly this time, partly involved in a dream in which Gene Halsey and he were in a bar involved in some sort of disagreement with a military policeman and partly aware that Lum Lee was pushing on his shoulder.
The latter allowance was really the best, because Mary was adamant, even in the face of disagreement by Mollen, against the idea of working Jim any more than an ordinary eight hours a day.
It was in regard to this very tittle that De Maupassant had a disagreement with Audran and Boucheron director of the Bouffes Parisiens in October, 1890 They had given this title to an operetta about to be played at the Bouffes.
However, I got caught up in arguments and disagreements with my brother, Pelles, over the running of Claymorgan and quite forgot the matter, so Thomas became a frequent visitor to Orland.
Davis came to the aid of his Kentucky colleague by moving an amendment, to come in as an additional Article, being a new plan of Presidential election designed to do away with the quadrennial Presidential campaign before the People by giving to each State the right to nominate one candidate, and leaving it to a Convention of both Houses of Congress-- and, in case of disagreement, to the Supreme Court of the United States --to elect a President and a Vice-President.
At the far end however Mowett and Rowan, the man who had replaced the lubberly Somers, seemed to be in disagreement, strong and even acrimonious disagreement.
On the question as to whether any one can produce hypnotism by pursuing the right methods there is some disagreement, but not much.
Their disagreement was purely on a matter of business, but although Joseph Mansell, a husband and a father, had existence outside the offices of Kane and Mansell, Silas and his business were one and indivisible.
During a normal timetable, we would execute periapsis burn for Earth encounter thirty minutes later, at eighteen-thirty, but for this mission we will have a minor glitch in the targeting computer, causing a disagreement in the primary AI interface.
What did they know of the disagreements he had had with Primavera, who wanted to take the child to her pallet in the kitchen?