🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

分歧

Pronunciation / Transliteration: fēnqí

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Disagreement/ˌdɪs.əˈɡriː.mənt/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"他们在基本原则上存在分歧。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A failure or refusal to agree; a difference of opinion, belief, or ideas between people.

    "A fundamental disagreement arose between the board members regarding the company's long-term strategic direction."
  2. 2

    An inconsistency or lack of harmony between two or more statements, facts, or figures.

    "The auditor noted a clear disagreement between the reported inventory and the actual physical count."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'disagreement' originates from the prefix 'dis-' meaning 'apart' or 'away' and 'agreement' from the Old French 'agreer', which itself comes from the Latin 'adgrātāre', meaning 'to please'. The term evolved in the English language during the late Middle Ages to denote a lack of consensus or harmony.

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