Amenable

Pronunciation

• IPA: /əˈmiːnÉ™bl/

Origin

From French as if *amenable, from amener ("to bring or lead, fetch in or to")

, from a- + mener ("to lead, conduct"), from Late Latin minare ("to drive"), Latin deponent minari ("to threaten, menace").

Full definition of amenable

Adjective

1. Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
2. Willing to comply with; agreeable.
3. (math, of a group) Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.

Antonyms

• unamenable

Anagrams

• beanmeal
• nameable