amenable

amenable

adjective

Definition of AMENABLE

1

having a desire or inclination (as for a specified course of action) <whatever you decide to do, I'm amenable—just let me know>

Synonyms amenable, disposed, fain, game, glad, inclined, minded, ready

Related Words predisposed, prone; accommodating, agreeable, compliant, cooperative, obedient, obliging, submissive; favorable, receptive; prepared, prompt, quick, responsive, swift; desirous, eager, enthused, enthusiastic, excited

Near Antonyms averse, loath (also loth or loathe), reluctant, reticent

Antonyms disinclined, unamenable, unwilling

2

readily giving in to the command or authority of another <our normally balky cat becomes the most amenable of creatures when confronted with the strange environment of the veterinary clinic>

Synonyms amenable, biddable, compliant, conformable, docile, law-abiding, submissive, tractable

Related Words acquiescent, agreeable, amiable, duteous, dutiful, obliging, placable; soft, surrendering, yielding; fawning, kowtowing, obeisant, obsequious, servile, slavish, subordinate, subservient; decorous, disciplined, mannerly, orderly; constrained, curbed, inhibited, repressed, restrained; controllable, disciplinable, governable, handleable, manageable, tame, teachable, tractable, trainable; gentle, meek, mild

Near Antonyms insurgent, mutinous; dogged, hardheaded, headstrong, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, peevish, pigheaded, self-willed, stubborn, unyielding; uncontrollable, unmanageable, wild; balky, defiant, perverse, resistant; bad, disorderly, errant, misbehaving, mischievous, naughty; ill-bred, undisciplined; dissident, nonconformist; disrespectful, ill-mannered, impolite, impudent, insolent, rude

Antonyms balky, contrary, contumacious, defiant, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, intractable, noncompliant, obstreperous, rebel, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, unamenable, ungovernable, unruly, untoward, wayward, willful (or wilful)

3

being the one who must meet an obligation or suffer the consequences for failing to do so <even our nation's highest leaders must remain amenable to the law>

Synonyms accountable, amenable, answerable, liable

Related Words beholden, indebted, obligated, obliged

Near Antonyms exempt, immune

Antonyms irresponsible, nonaccountable, unaccountable