Definition of AMENABLE

amenable

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

  • disposed or willing to comply
    • "someone amenable to persuasion"
  • readily reacting to suggestions and influences
  • open to being acted upon in a certain way
    • "an amenable hospitalization should not result in untimely death"
    • "the tumor was not amenable to surgical treatment"
  • liable to answer to a higher authority
    • "the president is amenable to the constitutional court"

Adj

  • Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
  • Willing to comply; easily led.
  • Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable.
  • Liable to the legal authority of (something).
  • Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman amenable, amesnable, from amener (“to bring or lead, fetch in or to”) + -able (“-able”); amener is in turn from a- + mener (“to lead, conduct”), from Late Latin mināre (“to drive”), Latin deponent minārī (“to threaten, menace”).

Antonyms

unamenable

Scrabble Score: 12

amenable is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
amenable is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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Words With Friends Score: 16

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