amenable
Meaning of amenable
- 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’).
Information about amenable
- 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:
Meaning responsive:
Meaning disposed to agree with others or obey rules, especially to an excessive degree; acquiescent:
Meaning ready to accept something without protest, or to do what someone else wants:
Meaning meekly ready to accept and follow instructions:
Meaning able to be controlled or dealt with without difficulty:
Meaning capable of being directed or influenced:
Meaning easily persuaded; amenable:
Meaning easily influenced or directed; yielding:
Meaning (of a person) ready and able to change so as to adapt to different circumstances:
Meaning easily influenced; pliable:
Meaning willing to please others or to accept what they do or say without protest:
Meaning willing to fit in with someone's wishes or needs:
Meaning ready to accept control or instruction; submissive:
Meaning ready to conform to the authority or will of others; meekly obedient or passive:
Meaning complying or willing to comply with an order or request; submissive to another's authority:
Meaning (of an animal) not dangerous or frightened of people; domesticated:
Meaning quiet, gentle, and easily imposed on; submissive:
amenable antonyms
Meaning unwilling to help others or do what they ask:
Translation of amenable
Anagrams of amenable
Words that rhyme with amenable
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