| Library / English Dictionary |
AMENABLE
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Disposed or willing to conform
Example:
someone amenable to the instruction of others
Synonyms:
amenable; conformable
Classified under:
Similar:
compliant (inclined to comply)
Derivation:
amenability; amenableness (the trait of being cooperative)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Liable to answer to a higher authority
Example:
the president is amenable to the constitutional court
Classified under:
Similar:
responsible (worthy of or requiring responsibility or trust; or held accountable)
Derivation:
amenableness (the trait of being cooperative)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Open to being acted upon in a certain way
Example:
the tumor was not amenable to surgical treatment
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
susceptible ((often followed by 'of' or 'to') yielding readily to or capable of)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Responsive to suggestions and influences
Example:
an amenable child
Synonyms:
amenable; tractable
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
susceptible ((often followed by 'of' or 'to') yielding readily to or capable of)
Derivation:
amenability; amenableness (the trait of being cooperative)
Context examples:
A localized hepatocellular carcinoma or intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma that occurs during adulthood and it is not amenable to surgical resection.
(Localized Non-Resectable Adult Liver Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
She was not so amenable to the law as he.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Mind, I don't say a crime; I am not speaking of shedding of blood or any other guilty act, which might make the perpetrator amenable to the law: my word is error.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I say again, said my aunt, nobody knows what that man's mind is except myself; and he's the most amenable and friendly creature in existence.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Remember that he has the strength of twenty men, and that, though our necks or our windpipes are of the common kind—and therefore breakable or crushable—his are not amenable to mere strength.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
A localized hepatocellular carcinoma that occurs during adulthood and it is not amenable to surgical resection.
(Localized Non-Resectable Adult Hepatocellular Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
An animal that is amenable to experimentation and whose physiological or pathologic mechanisms are sufficiently similar to those of a human for the animal to serve as a model.
(Animal model, NCI Thesaurus)
She knew not how such an offence as hers might be classed by the laws of worldly politeness, to what a degree of unforgivingness it might with propriety lead, nor to what rigours of rudeness in return it might justly make her amenable.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
After a good deal of squabbling,” said my aunt, “I got him; and he has been here ever since. He is the most friendly and amenable creature in existence; and as for advice! But nobody knows what that man's mind is, except myself.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
One lesson, too, we have learned, if it be allowable to argue a particulari: that the brute beasts which are to the Count's command are yet themselves not amenable to his spiritual power; for look, these rats that would come to his call, just as from his castle top he summon the wolves to your going and to that poor mother's cry, though they come to him, they run pell-mell from the so little dogs of my friend Arthur.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
