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SYLLABICATION:dif·fer
PRONUNCIATION:  dfr
INTRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: dif·fered, dif·fer·ing, dif·fers
1. To be dissimilar or unlike in nature, quality, amount, or form: Ambition differs from greed. 2. To be of a different opinion; disagree: The critic differed with the author on several facts. 3. Obsolete To quarrel; dispute.
ETYMOLOGY:Middle English differren, from Old French differer, from Latin differre, to differ, delay : dis-, apart; see dis– + ferre, to carry; see bher-1 in Appendix I.
SYNONYMS:differ, disagree, vary These verbs mean to be unlike or dissimilar: Birds differ from mammals. Their testimony disagreed on several points. People vary in intelligence.
ANTONYM:agree
 
 
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