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amenable

adj
/əˈmiːnəbəl/UK/əˈmɛn.ə.bəl/CA

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman amenable, amesnable, from amener (“to bring or lead, fetch in or to”) + -able (“-able”); amener is in turn from a- + mener (“to lead, conduct”), from Late Latin mināre (“to drive”), Latin deponent minārī (“to threaten, menace”).

  1. derived from mināre
  2. borrowed from amenable

Definitions

  1. Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.

  2. Willing to comply

    Willing to comply; easily led.

    • The communal nature of ostriches may have made these birds more amenable to life in captivity.

  3. Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim

    Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Liable to the legal authority of (something).

      • Decisions of the Boards of Appeal are amenable to actions before the Court of Justice of the European Communities.

    2. Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on…

      Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.

The neighborhood

Derived

amenableness, amenably, nonamenable, supramenable, unamenable

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at amenable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at amenable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at amenable

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA