- 1(of people) easy to control; willing to be influenced by someone or something They had three very amenable children. amenable to something He seemed amenable to my idea.
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- 2amenable to something (formal) that you can treat in a particular way “Hamlet” is the least amenable of all Shakespeare's plays to being summarized.
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