Agreed

How to spell agreed

6 letters · 2 syllables

How to pronounce agreed

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does agreed mean?

1. verbPast tense of agree: to have reached the same opinion as someone, or to have consented to something.
2. adjectiveSettled by mutual consent; arranged in advance.

Agreed in a sentence

• verb

  The board agreed to fund the new project after a short debate.

• adjective

  The parties met at the agreed time outside the station.

• verb

  We agreed on a price before the builder started any work.

• adjective

  Payment must follow the agreed schedule in the contract.

Where does agreed come from?

Language of origin: French

This is the past tense and past participle of 'agree', which English took from the Old French 'agreer', meaning 'to please' or 'to receive kindly'. That French verb was built from the phrase 'a gre', literally 'to (one's) liking', where 'gre' came from the Latin 'gratum', the neuter of 'gratus' meaning 'pleasing' or 'welcome'. The original idea was therefore about something being agreeable or to one's taste, and only later did the sense settle into people reaching a shared opinion or consent. The same Latin 'gratus' root sits behind familiar relatives such as 'grateful', 'gratitude' and 'gratis'. The word arrived in English in the fourteenth century, and the spelling keeps the double 'e' simply because the suffix '-ed' attaches to the existing 'agree', giving the steady -eed ending.

How the word is built

• agree (verb, from Old French agreer 'to please')
• -ed (past tense / past participle suffix)