Amenable
adjective
Willing to accept or be influenced by suggestions and advice.
She might be more amenable to the idea if you explain it to her properly.
Often appears as...
- amenable to suggestions
- amenable to advice
adjective
Able to be tested, judged or controlled.
In legal terms, a person is amenable to the jurisdiction of a court if he or she falls under its legal authority.
Often appears as...
- amenable to testing
- amenable to judgement
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Formal
Technical
adjective
Pleasant and agreeable, easy to manage.
He was an amenable child, always polite and helpful.
Often appears as...
- amenable child
- amenable person
adjective
Willing to accept or be influenced by suggestions and advice.
She might be more amenable to the idea if you explain it to her properly.
Often appears as...
- amenable to suggestions
- amenable to advice
adjective
Able to be tested, judged or controlled.
In legal terms, a person is amenable to the jurisdiction of a court if he or she falls under its legal authority.
Often appears as...
- amenable to testing
- amenable to judgement
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
adjective
Pleasant and agreeable, easy to manage.
He was an amenable child, always polite and helpful.
Often appears as...
- amenable child
- amenable person
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Open Attitude
Use 'amenable' when describing someone who's open to ideas or persuasion, like showing readiness to change.
After our discussion, he was amenable to revising the project plan.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Change
'Amenable' implies a positive response to new suggestions, indicating flexibility and adaptability.
She was amenable to exploring new ways to solve the issue.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Agreement
'Amenable' can suggest subtle agreement without overt enthusiasm; it's an understated way to show compliance.
While not excited, he seemed amenable to the changes.
Pro Tip 1/3Open Attitude
Use 'amenable' when describing someone who's open to ideas or persuasion, like showing readiness to change.
After our discussion, he was amenable to revising the project plan.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Change
'Amenable' implies a positive response to new suggestions, indicating flexibility and adaptability.
She was amenable to exploring new ways to solve the issue.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Agreement
'Amenable' can suggest subtle agreement without overt enthusiasm; it's an understated way to show compliance.
While not excited, he seemed amenable to the changes.
Pro Tip 1/3Open Attitude
Use 'amenable' when describing someone who's open to ideas or persuasion, like showing readiness to change.
After our discussion, he was amenable to revising the project plan.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Change
'Amenable' implies a positive response to new suggestions, indicating flexibility and adaptability.
She was amenable to exploring new ways to solve the issue.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Agreement
'Amenable' can suggest subtle agreement without overt enthusiasm; it's an understated way to show compliance.
While not excited, he seemed amenable to the changes.
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Nick Bostrom: Humanity's...
that we humans have, but that you could have another intelligent life form that lacks these. We're just lucky that we have the requisite neural machinery to process music and to appreciate it and enjoy it. All of these would enable, in principle -- be amenable to enhancement. Some people have a better musical ability
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Safari Live - Day 138 PIPE...
amenable settlement but for this time of year when the wind stops blowing for about two weeks where my parents live in the Eastern Cape also the wind tends to blow her but but this time of year just glorious and around here of course the edge of the summers come off which means
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Let's talk about dying -...
century of diseases that we no longer have the answers to in quite the way we did then so what's happening now is there's been a big shift in the way that people die and most of what they're dying off now isn't as amenable to what we can do as what it used to be like
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Nick Bostrom: Humanity's...
that we humans have, but that you could have another intelligent life form that lacks these. We're just lucky that we have the requisite neural machinery to process music and to appreciate it and enjoy it. All of these would enable, in principle -- be amenable to enhancement. Some people have a better musical ability
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Safari Live - Day 138 PIPE...
amenable settlement but for this time of year when the wind stops blowing for about two weeks where my parents live in the Eastern Cape also the wind tends to blow her but but this time of year just glorious and around here of course the edge of the summers come off which means
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Let's talk about dying -...
century of diseases that we no longer have the answers to in quite the way we did then so what's happening now is there's been a big shift in the way that people die and most of what they're dying off now isn't as amenable to what we can do as what it used to be like
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Rick Wilson
American Author
Our leaders ranged from bad to extraordinary. But through it all, the GOP was the one party even vaguely amenable to limited-government conservatism, to at least some adherence to the Constitution over the social preferences of the moment, and to the constraints on government power that our Founding Fathers so cherished.
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Ryan Zinke
American Politician
A lot of what a military officer does is not just leading troops in combat. It's also doing budgets. It's solving complex problems. If you can sit down with warlords, you can certainly sit down with different parties and folks with different interests and come out with an amenable solution.
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Maurice Saatchi
Iraqi Businessman
Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.
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John Stuart Mill
English Philosopher
The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
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Ashley Judd
American Actress
Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.
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Adoniram Judson
American Clergyman
Any known attempt at proselyting would be instantly amenable at a criminal tribunal and would probably be punished by the death of the proselyte and the banishment of the missionary. All efforts must be conducted in private and are therefore very limited.
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James Gray
American Director
The system is not really particularly amenable to filmmakers who write and direct their own work. It's much more about the studio already having a property that has a marketable concept and then hiring the director on board.
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Robert Rinder
English Judge
Perhaps the people of Twitter are more amenable to your babbling than your immediate family, but that doesn't necessarily make digital communication a beneficial distraction when we have an immediate social environment.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.
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Robin Sloan
American Author
When you do something a little bit extreme or weird, it helps make it more interesting and more amenable to being written about.
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Rick Wilson
American Author
Our leaders ranged from bad to extraordinary. But through it all, the GOP was the one party even vaguely amenable to limited-government conservatism, to at least some adherence to the Constitution over the social preferences of the moment, and to the constraints on government power that our Founding Fathers so cherished.
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Ryan Zinke
American Politician
A lot of what a military officer does is not just leading troops in combat. It's also doing budgets. It's solving complex problems. If you can sit down with warlords, you can certainly sit down with different parties and folks with different interests and come out with an amenable solution.
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Maurice Saatchi
Iraqi Businessman
Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.
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John Stuart Mill
English Philosopher
The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
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Ashley Judd
American Actress
Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.
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Adoniram Judson
American Clergyman
Any known attempt at proselyting would be instantly amenable at a criminal tribunal and would probably be punished by the death of the proselyte and the banishment of the missionary. All efforts must be conducted in private and are therefore very limited.
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James Gray
American Director
The system is not really particularly amenable to filmmakers who write and direct their own work. It's much more about the studio already having a property that has a marketable concept and then hiring the director on board.
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Robert Rinder
English Judge
Perhaps the people of Twitter are more amenable to your babbling than your immediate family, but that doesn't necessarily make digital communication a beneficial distraction when we have an immediate social environment.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.
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Robin Sloan
American Author
When you do something a little bit extreme or weird, it helps make it more interesting and more amenable to being written about.
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