amenable Definition
ame·nable (ə mē′nə bəl, -men′ə-)
adjective
- responsible or answerable
- able to be controlled or influenced; responsive; submissive a person amenable to suggestion; an illness amenable to treatment
- 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 (--bil′ə tē) noun
ame′·nably adverb
amenable Synonyms
amenable Law Definition
adj
- Legally answerable; required to respond; responsible; subject to.
- Capable of being tested, adjudged, or brought to judgment.
- 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.
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