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amenable 音标拼音: [əm'ɛnəbəl] [əm'inəbəl] a. 应服从的,会接纳的,肯服从的,有义务的 应服从的,会接纳的,肯服从的,有义务的 amenable adj 1: disposed or willing to comply; " someone amenable to persuasion" [ synonym: { amenable}, { conformable}] 2: readily reacting to suggestions and influences; " a responsive student" [ synonym: { amenable}, { tractable}] 3: open to being acted upon in a certain way; " an amenable hospitalization should not result in untimely death"; " the tumor was not amenable to surgical treatment" 4: liable to answer to a higher authority; " the president is amenable to the constitutional court" Amenable \ A* me" na* ble\, a. [ F. amener to lead; ? ( L. ad) = mener to lead, fr. L. minare to drive animals ( properly by threatening cries), in LL. to lead; L. minari, to threaten, minae threats. See { Menace}.] 1. ( Old Law) Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband. [ Obs.] -- Jacob. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law. [ 1913 Webster] Nor is man too diminutive . . . to be amenable to the divine government. -- I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable. [ 1913 Webster] Sterling . . . always was amenable enough to counsel. -- Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster] 97 Moby Thesaurus words for " amenable": accessible, accommodating, accountable, acquiescent, adaptable, adapting, adaptive, adjusting, advance, agreeable, alacritous, ameliorate, amend, answerable, ardent, better, biddable, chargeable, compliant, consenting, content, cooperative, dependent, disposed, docile, eager, elevate, emend, enthusiastic, fain, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, forward, game, help, humble, impressionable, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, influenceable, liable, lift, malleable, meek, meliorate, mend, minded, movable, obedient, open, open- minded, passive, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, plastic, pliable, pliant, predisposed, promote, prompt, prone, quick, raise, ready, ready and willing, receptive, reconciled, rectify, repair, resigned, responsible, responsible for, responsive, right, suasible, subdued, subject, submissive, subordinate, suggestible, susceptible, swayable, tame, to blame, tractable, uncomplaining, unresisting, weak, well- disposed, well- inclined, willed, willing, willinghearted, zealous
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