AMENABLE

amenable, conformable

(adjective) disposed or willing to conform; “someone amenable to the instruction of others”

amenable

(adjective) liable to answer to a higher authority; “the president is amenable to the constitutional court”

amenable

(adjective) open to being acted upon in a certain way; “an amenable hospitalization should not result in untimely death”; “the tumor was not amenable to surgical treatment”

amenable, tractable

(adjective) responsive to suggestions and influences; “a tractable student”; “an amenable child”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

amenable (comparative more amenable, superlative most amenable)

Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.

Willing to comply; easily led.

Liable to be brought to account; responsible; accountable.

(math, of a group) Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.

Antonyms

• unamenable

Anagrams

• beanmeal, meanable, nameable

Source: Wiktionary


A*me"na*ble, a. Etym: [F. amener to lead; ad) = mener to lead, fr. L. minare to drive animals (properly by threatening cries), in LL. to lead; L. minari, to threaten, minae threats. See Menace.]

1. (Old Law)

Definition: Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband. [Obs.] Jacob.

2. Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law. Nor is man too diminutive . . . to be amenable to the divine government. I. Taylor.

3. Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc.

4. Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable. Sterling . . . always was amenable enough to counsel. Carlyle.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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