1 ~ (to sth) (of people) easy to control; willing to be influenced by sb/sth:
They had three very amenable children. * He seemed most amenable to my idea.
2 ~ to sth (formal) that you can treat in a particular way:
'Hamlet' is the least amenable of all Shakespeare's plays to being summarized.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for amenable is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is amenable a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, amenable is tagged as adjective.
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