amenable

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French as if *amenable, from amener (“to bring or lead, fetch in or to”), from a- + mener (“to lead, conduct”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin minare (“to drive”), Latin deponent minari (“to threaten, menace”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈmiːnəbl/
• IPA^(key): /əˈmɛn.ə.bəl/

Rhymes: -ɛnəbəl

Adjective

amenable (comparative more amenable, superlative most amenable)

1. Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
2. Willing to comply; easily led.
3. Liable to be brought to account; responsible; accountable.
4. (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

Translations

Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions

• Bulgarian: податлив (bg) (podatliv), поддаващ се (poddavašt se), послушен (bg) (poslušen)
• Dutch: aanspreekbaar (nl), gevoelig (nl), toegankelijk (nl)}
• Finnish: vastaanottavainen
• German: fügsam (de), gefügig (de), zugängig, zugänglich (de)
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• Interlingue:
• Macedonian: поводлив (povodliv), неотпорен (neotporen), податлив (podatliv)
• Portuguese: aberto (pt), receptivo
• Russian: сгово́рчивый (ru) (sgovórčivyj)
• Spanish: receptivo, susceptible (es)
• Turkish: bağlı (tr), cevap verebilir, tabi olan (tr), yumuşak başlı (tr)

Willing to comply with; agreeable

• Bulgarian: отзивчив (bg) (otzivčiv), сговорчив (bg) (sgovorčiv)
• Finnish: myöntyväinen (fi)
• French: conciliant (fr)
• Greek: πρόθυμος (el) (próthymos), σύμφωνος (el) (sýmfonos)
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• Macedonian: послушен (poslušen), умен (umen)
• Maori: ngawhere
• Polish: uległy (pl)
• Russian: послу́шный (ru) (poslúšnyj)
• Spanish: agradable (es) (archaic)

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Translations to be checked

• Finnish: vastaanottavainen
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Further reading

• “amenable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “amenable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “amenable”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• beanmeal, meanable, nameable