amenable — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.

   Synonyms

   persuadableagreeable

2. Willing to comply; easily led.

   Synonyms

   compliantcomplaisant

   Examples

   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. Liable to the legal authority of (something).

   Examples

   Decisions of the Boards of Appeal are amenable to actions before the Court of Justice of the European Communities.

5. Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.

   Usage

   • of a group

Adjective

1. disposed or willing to conform

   Synonyms

   conformable

   Examples

   someone amenable to the instruction of others

2. responsive to suggestions and influences

   Synonyms

   tractable

   Examples

   a tractable student

   an amenable child

3. open to being acted upon in a certain way

   Examples

   an amenable hospitalization should not result in untimely death

   the tumor was not amenable to surgical treatment

4. liable to answer to a higher authority

   Examples

   the president is amenable to the constitutional court