amenable

American  

[uh-mee-nuh-buhl, uh-men-uh-] / əˈmi nə bəl, əˈmɛn ə- /

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

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amenable British  

/ 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

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Other Word Forms

• amenability noun
• amenableness noun
• amenably adverb
• nonamenability noun
• nonamenable adjective
• nonamenableness noun
• nonamenably adverb
• unamenable adjective
• unamenably adverb

Etymology

Origin of amenable

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

Example Sentences

There are other players in the regime who may not prove as amenable.

From Salon

"He was quite amenable, very nice and a believable bloke," he said.

From BBC

Brandishing charts that show the path to any objective, they see the future as knowable and amenable to our control.

From The Wall Street Journal

One prevailing thought is that “the joining” is a metaphor for AI creating a world where all individual thought and creativity are synthesized into a single, amenable voice.

From Los Angeles Times

Wall Street widely expects several interest rate cuts next year and a new Federal Reserve chair who is amenable to keep rates low.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• agreeable
• responsive
• susceptible