amenable
pronunciation
How to pronounce amenable in British English:
UK [əˈmi:nəbl]
How to pronounce amenable in American English:
US [əˈminəbəl, əˈmɛnə-]
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- Adjective:
- disposed or willing to comply
- readily reacting to suggestions and influences
- liable to answer to a higher authority
Word Origin
- amenable (adj.)
- 1590s, "liable," from Anglo-French amenable, Middle French amener "answerable" (to the law), from à "to" (see ad-) + mener "to lead," from Latin minare "to drive (cattle) with shouts," variant of minari "threaten" (see menace (n.)). Sense of "tractable" is from 1803, from notion of disposed to answer or submit to influence. Related: Amenably.
Example
- 1. We are amenable to the law .
- 2. People in power are amenable to you .
- 3. That makes them far less amenable to spreading party propaganda , particularly if it is boring .
- 4. His scientific discoveries are amenable to the laws of physics .
- 5. There is a lot of other agricultural research that is less amenable to corporate ownership but still needs doing .