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amenable.

Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.

8 characters4 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/əˈmiːnəbəl/Received-Pronunciation/əˈmɛn.ə.bəl/Canada, General-American/əˈmin.ə.bəl/Canada, General-American
  1. Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.

  2. Willing to comply; easily led.

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

  4. 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.
  5. Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman amenable, amesnable, from amener (“to bring or lead, fetch in or to”) + -able (“-able”); amener is in turn from a- + mener (“to lead, conduct”), from Late Latin mināre (“to drive”), Latin deponent minārī (“to threaten, menace”).

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