amenable
adjUK /əˈmiːnəbəl/ · CA, US /əˈmɛn.ə.bəl/
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”).
1
Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
2
Willing to comply; easily led.
- The communal nature of ostriches may have made these birds more amenable to life in captivity.2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine:
3
Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable.
4
Law 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
Mathematics, Sciences 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
- Derived terms
- amenableness, amenably, nonamenable, supramenable, unamenable