amenable

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
16
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/əˈmiːnəbəl/(UK)
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/əˈmiːnəbəl/(UK) · /əˈmɛn.ə.bəl/(US) · /əˈmin.ə.bəl/(US)

Definition of amenable

5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
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adj

  1. Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
  2. Willing to comply; easily led.
    “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. 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. 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

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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