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   a·me·na·ble

   /əˈmēnəb(ə)l/

   adjective

   • 1. (of a person) open and responsive to suggestion; easily persuaded or controlled: "parents who have had easy babies and amenable children" Similar compliantacquiescentbiddablemanageablecontrollablegovernablepersuadabletractableresponsivepliantflexiblemalleablecomplaisantaccommodatingdocilesubmissiveobedienttamemeekeasily handledrare:persuasibleOpposite uncooperative
   • ▪ (of a thing) capable of being acted upon in a particular way; susceptible to: "the patients had cardiac failure not amenable to medical treatment" Similar susceptiblereceptiveresponsivereactivevulnerabledefenseless againstrare:susceptiveOpposite resistant

   Word Origin 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’).

   Derivatives

   • 1. amenability noun
   • 2. amenably adverb
   • 3. amenableness noun

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   From French as if *amenable, from amener (“to bring or lead, fetch in or to”), from a-+ mener (“to lead, conduct”), from Late Latin minare (“to drive”), Latin deponent minari (“to threaten, menace”).

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   Definition of amenable in the Definitions.net dictionary. Meaning of amenable. Information and translations of amenable in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on the web.

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   Ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield. adjective. disposed or willing to conform; "someone amenable to the instruction of others" adjective. liable to answer to a higher authority; "the president is amenable to the constitutional court" adjective.

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   Define amenible. amenible synonyms, amenible pronunciation, amenible translation, English dictionary definition of amenible. 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...

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   Synonyms for amenable in Free Thesaurus. Antonyms for amenable. 29 synonyms for amenable: receptive, open, susceptible, responsive, agreeable, compliant, tractable, acquiescent, persuadable, able to be influenced, biddable.

10. dictionary.cambridge.org › es › diccionarioAMENABLE | significado en inglés - Cambridge Dictionary

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    willing to accept or be influenced by a suggestion: She might be more amenable to the idea if you explained how much money it would save. Do you think the new manager will prove more amenable to our proposals? Sinónimos. accommodating. acquiescent formal. complaisant formal. compliant formal. docile. malleable. obedient. pliant (PERSON)