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Amenable

  1. adjective

    readily reacting to suggestions and influences

    “a responsive student”

    Similar: tractable

  2. adjective

    open to being acted upon in a certain way

    “an amenable hospitalization should not result in untimely death”

  3. adjective

    liable to answer to a higher authority

    “the president is amenable to the constitutional court”

  4. adjective

    disposed or willing to comply

    “someone amenable to persuasion”

    Similar: conformable

Word family

amenableness

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Word parts

-able