amenable
[uh-mee-nuh-buh l, uh-men-uh-]
- 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.
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Origin of amenable
Synonyms
See more synonyms for amenable on Thesaurus.com1. manageable, docile, easy. 3. open, subject.
Antonyms
1. stubborn, recalcitrant.
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Contemporary Examples
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.
Despite his reputation as a ruthless practitioner of attrition warfare, Grant was amenable to Lee's request.
The strategy will be to stimulate crises that will be amenable to resolution by the transfer of resources.
Historical Examples
They will require a little wine, to mellow the austerity of age, and make them amenable to the laws.
LawsPlato
Philip, finding her so amenable, tried to discuss their future plans.
Where Angels Fear to TreadE. M. Forster
They were amenable to no civil laws, and recognized none but those of the church.
Aztec LandMaturin M. Ballou
To what extent this fish is amenable to the influences of temperature is an unsolved problem.
Tales of FishesZane Grey
Both these men were amenable to the influence of verbal suggestions.
VictoryJoseph Conrad
amenable
- 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
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Word Origin
C16: from Anglo-French, from Old French amener to lead up, from Latin mināre to drive (cattle), from minārī to threaten
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Word Origin and History for amenable
adj.
1590s, "liable," from Anglo-French amenable, Middle French amener "answerable" (to the law), from à "to" (see ad-) + mener "to lead," from Latin minare "to drive (cattle) with shouts," variant of minari "threaten" (see menace (n.)). Sense of "tractable" is from 1803, from notion of disposed to answer or submit to influence. Related: Amenably.
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