amenable

• amesnable (obsolete)

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”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈmiːnəbəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /əˈmɛn.ə.bəl/, /əˈmin.ə.bəl/
• Rhymes: -ɛnəbəl

amenable (comparative more amenable, superlative most amenable)

1. Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.

   Synonyms: persuadable, agreeable

   Coordinate terms: (stronger and more negative) suggestible, gullible

2. Willing to comply; easily led.

   Synonyms: compliant, complaisant

   • 2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine‎^[1]:

     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. (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.

5. (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.

• unamenable

• “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.

• beanmeal, meanable, nameable

• amesnable (influenced by mesne, demesne)

From amener (“to bring or lead, fetch in or to”) +‎ -able (“-able”).

• IPA^(key): /aməˈnablə/

amenable m (oblique and nominative feminine singular amenable) (Anglo-Norman)

1. amenable (agreeable, compliant, persuadable)
2. (law) amenable (answerable, liable)

• → English: amenable