EGAVE

amenable

About 2.52 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

Similar words

compliant tractable willing answerable accountable testable responsive subject to docile receptive

Often followed by

to for and than only in as of

Word family

amenabilities amenability amenably

Save “amenable” to learn later