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amenable Definition

ame·nable (ə mēnə bəl, -menə-)

adjective

  1. responsible or answerable
  2. able to be controlled or influenced; responsive; submissive a person amenable to suggestion; an illness amenable to treatment
  3. that can be tested by (with to) amenable to the laws of physics

Etymology: Anglo-Fr < OFr amener, to bring about, lead in < a-, to + mener, to lead < L minare, to drive (animals) < minari, to threaten: see menace

amenable Related Forms

ame′·nabil·ity (--bilə tē) noun ame·nably adverb

amenable Synonyms

amenable

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amenable Law Definition

adj

  1. Legally answerable; required to respond; responsible; subject to.
  2. Capable of being tested, adjudged, or brought to judgment.
  3. Susceptible to; disposed toward; capable of being persuaded.

amenable Usage Examples

Adjective complement with noun phrase

make: To make this text amenable to analysis it has undergone some grooming.

Infinitive complement

  • change: Or we can choose to engage positively with those who seem most amenable to change.
  • study: Language is, of course, even less amenable to study than evolution.
  • control: However this is not a process amenable to control measures.
  • cure: The service is also involved in palliation of conditions which are not at the present time amenable to cure.
  • compromise: But this does not imply that they automatically support peace making policies or are more amenable to compromise than men.
  • use: The vocabulary of symbols which science fiction employs is particularly amenable to use in this respect.

Modifying Another Word

  • readily: The design is deliberately modular, and hence readily amenable to extension at each stage.
  • perfectly: Conseil was eager to accept, and this time the Canadian proved perfectly amenable to going with us.
  • potentially: One mechanism of drug resistance, which is potentially amenable to therapeutic intervention, is based on studies in our laboratory.
  • particularly: Areas of research: Reference populations Pigs are particularly amenable for mapping purposes.
  • equally: Smaller forms of reuse are equally amenable to XML construction.
  • entirely: I do try and get a bit of as near 1 on 1 as I can - but SB not entirely amenable!

Used with adjective complement

  • prove: Even viral diseases have proven amenable to drug therapy over the past 20 years.
  • seem: Or we can choose to engage positively with those who seem most amenable to change.
  • become: Even some services which do not require face-to-face contact have become amenable to transfer to countries which enjoy a low cost base.
  • make: The derisively small number of people made amenable for these crimes have been released under the Belfast Agreement.

Modifies a noun

  • mortality: It also does not exclude the use of amenable mortality to gain new insights into inequalities in access to care within populations.
  • environment: As more amenable environments for the creation and presentation of electronic papers have emerged, however, more disciplines began to exploit them.
  • staff: Pros: Easy access, good and amenable staff.