Amenable

//əˈmɛn.ə.bəl// adj

adj ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
  2. 2
    Willing to comply; easily led.

    "The communal nature of ostriches may have made these birds more amenable to life in captivity."

  3. 3
    Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable.
  4. 4
    Liable to the legal authority of (something).

    "Decisions of the Boards of Appeal are amenable to actions before the Court of Justice of the European Communities."

  5. 5
    Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.
Adjective
  1. 1
    disposed or willing to conform wordnet
  2. 2
    liable to answer to a higher authority wordnet
  3. 3
    open to being acted upon in a certain way wordnet
  4. 4
    responsive to suggestions and influences wordnet

Synonyms

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compliantresponsiblesusceptibletractableaccessibleaccommodating

Example

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"This kind of case is amenable to statistical treatment."

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman amenable, amesnable, from amener (“to bring or lead, fetch in or to”) + -able (“-able”); amener is in turn from a- + mener (“to lead, conduct”), from Late Latin mināre (“to drive”), Latin deponent minārī (“to threaten, menace”).

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