amenable
ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence, persuasion, or advice; agreeable; submissive; tractable: an amenable servant.
liable to be called to account; answerable; legally responsible: You are amenable for this debt.
capable of or agreeable to being tested, tried, analyzed, etc.
Origin of amenable
1Other words for amenable
Opposites for amenable
Other words from amenable
- 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
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How to use amenable in a sentence
The politics look potentially most amenable in Pennsylvania, and even there a GOP legislature has to go along.
After all, plenty of folks would be amenable to, or perhaps even charmed by, the idea of an untraditional marriage.
The question for Republicans is whether it plays in places where the public is amenable to something like the Medicaid expansion.
Perhaps Khartoum could even lean on Machar to be more amenable to a diplomatic solution.
Despite his reputation as a ruthless practitioner of attrition warfare, Grant was amenable to Lee's request.
No—go when we will, and where we may, we shall hold ourselves amenable to defend and protect the country that embraces us.
Young Richard, never loath to fortify himself, proved amenable enough to the stiffly laced Canary that his friend set before him.
Mistress Wilding | Rafael SabatiniEvery one of the little boys became more or less amenable to his influence, and among them Vernon Williams.
Eric, or Little by Little | Frederic W. FarrarDay after day, night after night, heaps of outrages were committed there, and not one offender was made amenable to justice.
Is Ulster Right? | AnonymousSabúti siya ug musugut ba, Have a talk with him to see if he is amenable.
A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan | John U. Wolff
British Dictionary definitions for amenable
/ (əˈmiːnəbəl) /
open or susceptible to suggestion; likely to listen, cooperate, etc
accountable for behaviour to some authority; answerable
capable of being or liable to be tested, judged, etc
Origin of amenable
1Derived forms of amenable
- amenability or amenableness, noun
- amenably, adverb
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