English Explanatory Dictionary

amenable

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Pronunciation

/əˈmiːnəbəl/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-amenable.wav /əˈmɛn.ə.bəl/ /əˈmin.ə.bəl/

Word forms

amenable more amenable most amenable amesnable

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”).

Synonyms

persuadable agreeable compliant complaisant amenable biddable controllable docile governable indulgent manageable maniable meek passive pliant rulable tractable yielding

Antonyms

unamenable

Derived words

amenableness amenably nonamenable supramenable unamenable
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