amenable

Meaning of amenable

adjective
  1. open and responsive to suggestion; easily persuaded or controlled.
    parents who have amenable children

late 16th century (in the sense ‘liable to answer to a law or tribunal’): an Anglo-Norman French legal term, from Old French amener ‘bring to’ from a- (from Latin ad ) ‘to’ + mener ‘bring’ (from late Latin minare ‘drive animals’, from Latin minari ‘threaten’).

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  • It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of amenable

amenable

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
  • amenable is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

amenable synonyms

Meaning conformable:

conformable

Meaning responsive:

responsive, tractable

Meaning disposed to agree with others or obey rules, especially to an excessive degree; acquiescent:

compliant

Meaning ready to accept something without protest, or to do what someone else wants:

acquiescent

Meaning meekly ready to accept and follow instructions:

biddable

Meaning able to be controlled or dealt with without difficulty:

manageable

Meaning capable of being directed or influenced:

controllable

Meaning easily persuaded; amenable:

persuadable

Meaning easily influenced or directed; yielding:

pliant

Meaning (of a person) ready and able to change so as to adapt to different circumstances:

flexible

Meaning easily influenced; pliable:

malleable

Meaning willing to please others or to accept what they do or say without protest:

complaisant

Meaning willing to fit in with someone's wishes or needs:

accommodating

Meaning ready to accept control or instruction; submissive:

docile

Meaning ready to conform to the authority or will of others; meekly obedient or passive:

submissive

Meaning complying or willing to comply with an order or request; submissive to another's authority:

obedient

Meaning (of an animal) not dangerous or frightened of people; domesticated:

tame

Meaning quiet, gentle, and easily imposed on; submissive:

meek

amenable antonyms

Meaning unwilling to help others or do what they ask:

uncooperative

Translation of amenable

Anagrams of amenable

nameable

Words that rhyme with amenable

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