Associations to the word «Amenable»

Wiktionary

AMENABLE, adjective. Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
AMENABLE, adjective. Willing to comply with; agreeable.
AMENABLE, adjective. (math) (of a group) Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.

Dictionary definition

AMENABLE, adjective. Disposed or willing to comply; "someone amenable to persuasion".
AMENABLE, adjective. Readily reacting to suggestions and influences; "a responsive student".
AMENABLE, 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".
AMENABLE, adjective. Liable to answer to a higher authority; "the president is amenable to the constitutional court".

Wise words

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