amenable.

1. Willing to respond favorably to a suggestion, influence, or course of action.

2. Capable of being treated, analyzed, or affected by a specified process.

3. Subject or answerable to an authority or jurisdiction.

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Words that belong together

• amenable to persuasion
• amenable to compromise

On the page

She was amenable to compromise but not to abandoning the central claim.

The witness proved more amenable to a private conversation.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more amenable; superlative most amenable where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.