An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
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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