amenable

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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”).

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Adjective

amenable (comparative more amenable, superlative most amenable)

  1. Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
    Synonyms: persuadable, agreeable
    Coordinate terms: (stronger and more negative) suggestible, gullible
  2. Willing to comply; easily led.
    Synonyms: compliant, complaisant; see also Thesaurus:docile
    • 2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine‎[1], archived from the original on 1 January 2021:
      The communal nature of ostriches may have made these birds more amenable to life in captivity.
  3. Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable.
  4. (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.
  5. (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.

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Etymology

From amener (“to bring or lead, fetch in or to”) +‎ -able (“-able”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aməˈnablə/

Adjective

amenable m (feminine amenable) (Anglo-Norman)

  1. amenable (agreeable, compliant, persuadable)
  2. (law) amenable (answerable, liable)

Descendants

  • → English: amenable
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