amenable

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UK /əˈmiːnəbəl/ US /əˈmɛn.ə.bəl/

adj 5

Collocations

(adj.)

VERBS

be, seem | find sb/sth

ADV

highly, most, very

The staff found the new director very amenable to their suggestions for improving the workplace.

PREP

The new manager proved amenable to suggestions from her team members.

Definitions

adj

Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.

Willing to comply; easily led.

The communal nature of ostriches may have made these birds more amenable to life in captivity.

Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable.

Liable to the legal authority of (something).

Decisions of the Boards of Appeal are amenable to actions before the Court of Justice of the European Communities.

Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — disposed or willing to conform

conformable

adjective — responsive to suggestions and influences

tractable

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

The communal nature of ostriches may have made these birds more amenable to life in captivity.

Wiktionary

Decisions of the Boards of Appeal are amenable to actions before the Court of Justice of the European Communities.

Wiktionary

This kind of case is amenable to statistical treatment.

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His theory is not amenable to simplification for laymen.

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They want to live in a social cohort, like a retirement community, and things like that where it's much more socially amenable to them.

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We are generally amenable to requests of this kind.

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