amenable
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French as if *amenable, from amener (“to bring or lead, fetch in or to”), from a- + mener (“to lead, conduct”), from Late Latin mināre (“to drive”), Latin deponent minārī (“to threaten, menace”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Rhymes: -ɛnəbəl
Adjective
[edit]amenable (comparative more amenable, superlative most amenable)
- Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
- Synonyms: persuadable, agreeable
- Coordinate terms: (stronger and more negative) suggestible, gullible
- Willing to comply; easily led.
- Synonyms: compliant, complaisant
- 2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine[1]:
- The communal nature of ostriches may have made these birds more amenable to life in captivity.
- Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable.
- (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.
- (mathematics, 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.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions
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willing to comply with; agreeable
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liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable — see liable, responsible, accountable, answerable
liable to the legal authority of (something)
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Further reading
[edit]- “amenable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “amenable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “amenable”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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