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amenable
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adjective (a)

  • Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband.(adjective)
    source: webster1913

adjective satellite (s)

  • disposed or willing to comply(adj.all)
    Example:
    Someone amenable to persuasion.
    Synonym:
    compliant, conformable
    source: wordnet30
  • readily reacting to suggestions and influences(adj.all)
    Synonym:
    tractable
    source: wordnet30
  • open to being acted upon in a certain way(adj.all)
    Example:
    An amenable hospitalization should not result in untimely death.
    The tumor was not amenable to surgical treatment.
    source: wordnet30
  • liable to answer to a higher authority(adj.all)
    Example:
    The president is amenable to the constitutional court.
    source: wordnet30
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