amenable
/əˈmiːnəb(ə)l
/adjective
1Open and responsive to suggestion; easily persuaded or controlled: parents who have amenable children...
- It was hoped by employers that the new working class would be more docile and amenable than the old.
- The company must negotiate the planning departments of many UK local councils, and Howes diplomatically suggests that some are more amenable than others.
- What is not to be regretted is the passing of the typewriter: it was the least amenable tool, requiring such a tedious process to make corrections that it encouraged writers to leave imperfect work unamended.
Synonyms
compliant, acquiescent, biddable, manageable, controllable, governable, persuadable, tractable, responsive, pliant, flexible, malleable, complaisant, accommodating, docile, submissive, obedient, tame, meek, easily handled
rare persuasible
1.1 (amenable to) Capable of being acted upon in a particular way; susceptible: cardiac failure not amenable to medical treatment...
- Nor is the exercise upon which the court is engaged amenable to such an answer.
- The reality is that for obvious reasons the continuing gangland carnage is not readily amenable to ordinary law.
- It was clearly not reliable or repeatable and therefore not amenable to science and quickly discredited.
Synonyms
susceptible, receptive, responsive, reactive, vulnerable;
defenceless against
rare susceptive
Derivatives
amenability
/ noun ...- It was this Jesuit amenability to incorporating pre-existing non-Christian beliefs and practises in their efforts at conversion that was causing Rome in this same period to censure the order in India and China.
- Instead, it is employed as a resource for stabilizing defendants, particularly during the early phases of treatment, and for increasing amenability to treatment.
- These are interesting because of their low prices, and their amenability to living in your home entertainment center.
amenably
- Both are amenably superfluous; neither will replace Bernard Taper's standard biography, or even Richard Buckle's later book, and neither seems to want to.
- His blandness makes him an amenably malleable subject for a novelist, and Sten Nadolny has taken full advantage of this licence.
- I froze in horror as I saw that Gabriel had already found my grandparents, and was sitting with them, chatting amenably.
amenableness
Origin
Late 16th century (in the sense 'liable to answer to a law or tribunal'): an Anglo-Norman French legal term, from Old French amener 'bring to' from a- (from Latin ad) 'to' + mener 'bring' (from late Latin minare 'drive animals', from Latin minari 'threaten').