Definitions for amenable

amenable a·me·na·ble

Spelling: [uh-mee-nuh-buh l, uh
IPA: /əˈmi nə bəl, əˈmɛn ə-/

Amenable is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 202 anagrams from letters in amenable (aabeelmn).

Definitions for amenable

adjective

  1. ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence, persuasion, or advice; agreeable; submissive; tractable:
  2. liable to be called to account; answerable; legally responsible:
  3. capable of or agreeable to being tested, tried, analyzed, etc.

Origin of amenable

1590-1600; Anglo-French, equivalent to Middle French amen(er) to lead to (a- a-5 + mener Late Latin mināre for Latin minārī to drive) + -able Examples for amenable

The strategy will be to stimulate crises that will be amenable to resolution by the transfer of resources.

The question for Republicans is whether it plays in places where the public is amenable to something like the Medicaid expansion.

They will require a little wine, to mellow the austerity of age, and make them amenable to the laws.

After all, plenty of folks would be amenable to, or perhaps even charmed by, the idea of an untraditional marriage.

They were amenable to no civil laws, and recognized none but those of the church.

Philip, finding her so amenable, tried to discuss their future plans.

Despite his reputation as a ruthless practitioner of attrition warfare, Grant was amenable to Lee's request.

The politics look potentially most amenable in Pennsylvania, and even there a GOP legislature has to go along.

Both these men were amenable to the influence of verbal suggestions.

To what extent this fish is amenable to the influences of temperature is an unsolved problem.

Word Value for amenable
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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