amenable Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite disposed or willing to comply
    conformable.
    • someone amenable to persuasion
  2. adjective satellite readily reacting to suggestions and influences
    tractable.
    • a responsive student
  3. adjective satellite 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
  4. adjective satellite liable to answer to a higher authority
    • the president is amenable to the constitutional court

WordNet

A*me"na*ble adjective
Etymology
F. amener to lead; (L. ad) = mener to lead, fr. L. minare to drive animals (properly by threatening cries), in LL. to lead; L. minari, to threaten, minae threats. See Menace.
Definitions
  1. (Old Law) Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband. Obs. Jacob.
  2. Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law.
    Nor is man too diminutive . . . to be amenable to the divine government. I. Taylor.
  3. Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc.
  4. Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable.
    Sterling . . . always was amenable enough to counsel. Carlyle.

Webster 1913