amenable

[ uh-mee-nuh-buhl, uh-men-uh- ]

adjective

1. ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence, persuasion, or advice; agreeable; submissive; tractable:

   an amenable servant.

   Synonyms: easy, docile, manageable

   Antonyms: recalcitrant, stubborn

2. liable to be called to account; answerable; legally responsible:

   You are amenable for this debt.

3. capable of or agreeable to being tested, tried, analyzed, etc.

   Synonyms: responsible, accountable

amenable

/ əˈmiːnəbəl /

adjective

1. open or susceptible to suggestion; likely to listen, cooperate, etc
2. accountable for behaviour to some authority; answerable
3. capable of being or liable to be tested, judged, etc

Derived Forms

• aˌmenaˈbility, noun
• aˈmenably, adverb

Other Words From

• a·mena·bili·ty a·mena·ble·ness noun
• a·mena·bly adverb
• nona·mena·bili·ty noun
• nona·mena·ble adjective
• nona·mena·ble·ness noun
• nona·mena·bly adverb
• una·mena·ble adjective
• una·mena·bly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of amenable¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; from Anglo-French, equivalent to Middle French amen(er) “to lead to” ( a- a- ⁵ + mener, from Late Latin mināre “to push, impel,” from Latin minārī “to threaten”) + -able -able

Word History and Origins

Origin of amenable¹

C16: from Anglo-French, from Old French amener to lead up, from Latin mināre to drive (cattle), from minārī to threaten

Example Sentences

Collins, though, may be more amenable after her intensely competitive November election is over.

From Ozy

Feynman diagrams can be translated into geometric spaces that are amenable to analysis by cohomology.

From Quanta Magazine

There was even work to make it amenable to industrial looms.

From Singularity Hub 

I was pretty shocked in general to see how amenable people were to changing this very foundational thing!

From FiveThirtyEight

That might have included graduate students, it might have been a school district that was very amenable to research, and then you take the results of that and trying to put that into another location is where that challenge happened.

From Freakonomics

The politics look potentially most amenable in Pennsylvania, and even there a GOP legislature has to go along.

From The Daily Beast

After all, plenty of folks would be amenable to, or perhaps even charmed by, the idea of an untraditional marriage.

From The Daily Beast

The question for Republicans is whether it plays in places where the public is amenable to something like the Medicaid expansion.

From The Daily Beast

Perhaps Khartoum could even lean on Machar to be more amenable to a diplomatic solution.

From The Daily Beast

Despite his reputation as a ruthless practitioner of attrition warfare, Grant was amenable to Lee's request.

From The Daily Beast

No—go when we will, and where we may, we shall hold ourselves amenable to defend and protect the country that embraces us.

From Project Gutenberg

Young Richard, never loath to fortify himself, proved amenable enough to the stiffly laced Canary that his friend set before him.

From Project Gutenberg

Every one of the little boys became more or less amenable to his influence, and among them Vernon Williams.

From Project Gutenberg

Day after day, night after night, heaps of outrages were committed there, and not one offender was made amenable to justice.

From Project Gutenberg

Sabúti siya ug musugut ba, Have a talk with him to see if he is amenable.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• agreeable
• responsive
• susceptible