amenable
adjective/əˈmiːnəbl/
/əˈmiːnəbl/, /əˈmenəbl/
- (of people) easy to persuade; willing to accept a suggestion
- They had three very amenable children.
- The manager was very amenable: nothing was too much trouble.
- amenable to something He seemed most amenable to my idea.
- You should find him amenable to reasonable arguments.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- prove
- seem
- …
- highly
- most
- particularly
- …
- to
- amenable to something (formal) that you can treat in a particular way
- ‘Hamlet’ is the least amenable of all Shakespeare's plays to being summarized.
- He tried to catch one of the more amenable waves.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘liable to answer to a law or tribunal’): an Anglo-Norman French legal term, from Old French amener ‘bring to’ from a- (from Latin ad) ‘to’ + mener ‘bring’ (from late Latin minare ‘drive animals’, from Latin minari ‘threaten’).
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