amenable English

Meaning amenable meaning

What does amenable mean?

amenable

— adjective disposed or willing to comply someone amenable to persuasion

— adjective open to being acted upon in a certain way an amenable hospitalization should not result in untimely death the tumor was not amenable to surgical treatment

— adjective readily reacting to suggestions and influences a responsive student

— adjective liable to answer to a higher authority the president is amenable to the constitutional court

Synonyms amenable synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as amenable?

amenable English » English

obedient

compliant

tractable

dutiful

answerable

agreeable

accommodating

submissive

conformable

accountable

yielding

responsive

liable

inclined

good-hearted

docile

disposed

complaisant

apt

appeasable

within the jurisdiction

within the competence

well-suited

under the jurisdiction

under the competence

suitable

submit to

suasible

soft

responsible for

receptive

on the hook

obliging

manageable

lawful

law-abiding

inclinable

facile

easy

congenial

conformability

conciliatory

conciliary

cognizable

chargeable

biddable

be obedient to

applicable

affable

acceptant

Examples amenable examples

How do I use amenable in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

Perhaps a few days' rest will make you more amenable.

I didn't even have to throw myself at the King's feet. He was quite amenable. If you play your cards right.

Yes, sir. But back in Washington, the Office of War Information wants to know if, before things get going, you'd be amenable to a small revision of the wording.

Your son is not so extravagant as you think, and is amenable to reason.

I'm very pleased with my student. She is amenable and very intelligent.

Not the most amenable of gentlemen.

Would you tell him that I'd be more than happy to help out with lab time and materials, even some space if, I don't know what you think, he might be amenable to sharing.

He'll be more amenable.

W-w-what I'm proposing is, and I don't mean to appear indecorous...is-is, um, a-a social engagement, a-a date, if you're amenable.

I've already taken the liberty of speaking to our station's commanding officer about you and she's amenable to the idea.

I'm sure Captain Janeway would be amenable to take as many of your people with us as we can accommodate.

Provided Agent Mulder is amenable.

I'd like to buy you a drink to celebrate, if you're amenable.

His nephew, Feyd, the narcissistic type should be especially amenable to your expert charms.

Are you amenable to reason?

I'll buy the old dear something to make her amenable again.

He was very amenable to everything.

These treatments should make you more amenable to therapy.

Uh, he is the one sitting right over there. Very amenable.

But back in Washington, the Office of War Information wants to know if, before things get going, you'd be amenable to a small revision of the wording.

Cautiously, I followed what I considered to be an amenable route, and soon had to retrace my path.

You're so amenable.

Her Highness will be amenable.

He was quite amenable. If you play your cards right.

I thought she'd be amenable to returning them if I took her to her favourite bistro.

As a matter of fact, I think I can assure you that Dr. Bell is perfectly amenable to second opinions.

HOWEVER, THE CENTER AND I MAY BE ABLE TO COME TO SOME MORE. AMENABLE. AGREEMENT?

BECAUSE YOU HADN'T BEEN HERE LONG, DIDN'T HAVE A CRIMINAL RECORD, AND THE PSYCH PROFILE SAID YOU WOULD BE AMENABLE FOR COERCION.

She seems amenable to the naughty, right?

But she seems even more amenable if you're part of it.

Amenable.

Amenable, that's right.

News and current affairs

But a moment's reflection should remind us that Europe's problems are not amenable to currency manipulation.

Many crucial issues, such as financial stability or climate change, simply are not amenable to military force.

Rather, they will be structural market failures of participation that are not amenable to any straightforward and easily implemented cure.

Most notably, they are ethnically homogeneous, so that social divisions are more amenable to compromise.

Unfortunately, this behavioral theory of stock market movements is not amenable to easy quantification and forecasting.

The ultimate irony is that all of these deep problems are amenable to solutions, albeit solutions that require money.

This makes them vulnerable to Syrian leverage, and is why they may be more amenable to dealing with Syria on the presidency.

As Russia's conflict with Ukraine in early January over gas prices demonstrated, when Russia plays rough, the West grows apprehensive and suspicious rather than more amenable.

But there is also a risk that assistance for tsunami victims is diverting aid from disasters that are of a more chronic character or that are less amenable to sensational media coverage.

And European control over banks is less amenable to political abuse than national control.

The political and security situation in Iraq seems to be stabilizing, and Syria seems to be more amenable to negotiation.

The world's major developed economies are not suffering from cyclical deficiencies in aggregate demand that are amenable to a monetary cure.

And the political environment is amenable to their plans: India now conducts more joint military exercises with the US than with any other country.

Moreover, Kerry's peace drive is taking place in a regional environment that is not amenable to a negotiated resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Within this new peace paradigm, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would become amenable to a truly international solution.

But, rather than reflecting a decline in its military superiority, America's setbacks in Iraq and Afghanistan are the result of wrongheaded policies that sought to use hard power to solve conflicts that were simply not amenable to it.