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Amenable

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Adjective

1. amenable, conformable

disposed or willing to comply

Example Sentences:
'someone amenable to persuasion'

2. amenable, tractable

readily reacting to suggestions and influences

Example Sentences:
'a responsive student'

3. amenable

open to being acted upon in a certain way

Example Sentences:
'an amenable hospitalization should not result in untimely death'
'the tumor was not amenable to surgical treatment'

4. amenable

liable to answer to a higher authority

Example Sentences:
'the president is amenable to the constitutional court'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Amenable

see synonyms of amenable
adjective
1. 
open or susceptible to suggestion; likely to listen, cooperate, etc
2. 
accountable for behaviour to some authority; answerable
3. 
capable of being or liable to be tested, judged, etc

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Amenable

see synonyms of amenable
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

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Amenable

see synonyms of amenable
adj.
1.
a. Willing to accept a suggestion or submit to authority: "a class that is all the more amenable to control for living perpetually under the threat of deportation" (Amitav Ghosh).
b. Ready to consent; agreeable: Are you amenable to a change in schedule?
2. Responsible to higher authority; accountable: amenable to the law. See Synonyms at responsible.
3. Susceptible or open, as to testing or criticism: "The phenomenon of mind ... is much more complex, though also more amenable to scientific investigation, than anyone suspected" (Michael D. Lemonick).

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