amenable

== English == === Alternative forms === amesnable (obsolete) === 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”). === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /əˈmiːnəbəl/ (US, Canada) IPA(key): /əˈmɛn.ə.bəl/, /əˈmin.ə.bəl/ Rhymes: -ɛnəbəl === Adjective === amenable (comparative more amenable, superlative most amenable) Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions. Synonyms: persuadable, agreeable Coordinate terms: (stronger and more negative) suggestible, gullible Willing to comply; easily led. Synonyms: compliant, complaisant Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable. (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. (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. ==== Antonyms ==== unamenable ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== Further reading ==== “amenable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “amenable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “amenable”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. === Anagrams === beanmeal, meanable, nameable == Old French == === Alternative forms === amesnable (influenced by mesne, demesne) === Etymology === From amener (“to bring or lead, fetch in or to”) +‎ -able (“-able”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /aməˈnablə/ === Adjective === amenable m (oblique and nominative feminine singular amenable) (Anglo-Norman) amenable (agreeable, compliant, persuadable) (law) amenable (answerable, liable) ==== Descendants ==== → English: amenable