amenable

English

Etymology

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

IPA^(key): /əˈmiːnəbəl/
Audio (UK) (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /əˈmɛn.ə.bəl/

Rhymes: -ɛnəbəl

Adjective

amenable (comparative more amenable, superlative most amenable)

Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
Willing to comply; easily led.
- 2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine‎:
  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.

Antonyms

unamenable

Translations

willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions

Bulgarian: податлив (bg) (podatliv), поддаващ се (poddavašt se), послушен (bg) (poslušen)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 順從嘅 (seon⁶ cung⁴ ge³)
Dutch: aanspreekbaar (nl), gevoelig (nl), toegankelijk (nl)
Finnish: vastaanottavainen
German: fügsam (de), gefügig (de), zugängig, zugänglich (de)
Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍈𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌱𐍃 (gaƕairbs)
Hungarian: nyitott (hu), fogékony (hu), meggyőzhető, irányítható, kezelhető (hu), fegyelmezhető, szófogadó (hu), kezes (hu), hajlik a szóra
Macedonian: поводлив (povodliv), неотпорен (neotporen), податлив (podatliv)
Portuguese: aberto (pt), receptivo (pt)
Russian: сгово́рчивый (ru) (sgovórčivyj)
Spanish: receptivo, susceptible (es)
Turkish: bağlı (tr), cevap verebilir, tabi olan (tr), yumuşak başlı (tr)

willing to comply with; agreeable

Bulgarian: отзивчив (bg) (otzivčiv), сговорчив (bg) (sgovorčiv)
Finnish: myöntyväinen (fi)
French: conciliant (fr)
Greek: πρόθυμος (el) (próthymos), σύμφωνος (el) (sýmfonos)
Hungarian: hajlandó (hu), hajlamos (hu), (verb) hajlik (hu)
Macedonian: послушен (poslušen), умен (umen)
Maori: ngawhere
Polish: uległy (pl)
Russian: послу́шный (ru) (poslúšnyj), податливый (ru) (podatlivyj), покладистый (ru) (pokladistyj)
Spanish: agradable (es) (archaic), dócil (es)

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)

Hungarian: hatálya/illetékessége alá tartozik, hatálya/illetékessége kiterjed rá

Anagrams

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