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    a·me·na·ble
    [əˈmēnəb(ə)l, əˈmenəb(ə)l]
    adjective
    amenable (adjective)
    1. (of a person) open and responsive to suggestion; easily persuaded or controlled:
      "parents who have had easy babies and amenable children"
      • (amenable to)
        (of a thing) capable of being acted upon in a particular way; susceptible to:
        "the patients had cardiac failure not amenable to medical treatment"
    Origin
    late 16th century (in the sense ‘liable to answer to a law or tribunal’): an Anglo-Norman French legal term, from Old French amener ‘bring to’ from a- (from Latin ad) ‘to’ + mener ‘bring’ (from late Latin minare ‘drive animals’, from Latin minari ‘threaten’).
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    Similar and Opposite Words
    adjective
    1. (of a person) open and responsive to suggestion; easily persuaded or controlled:
      compliant
      acquiescent
      biddable
      manageable
      controllable
      governable
      persuadable
      tractable
      responsive
      pliant
      flexible
      malleable
      complaisant
      accommodating
      docile
      submissive
      obedient
      tame
      meek
      persuasible
      easily handled
      Opposite:
      uncooperative
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