a‧me‧na‧ble/əˈmiːnəbəl $ əˈmiːn- əˈmen-/ adjective [date : 1500-1600; Language : Old French; Origin : amener 'to lead up', from mener 'to lead'] 1. willing to accept what someone says or does without arguing: ▪ She was always a very amenable child. amenable to ▪ Young people are more amenable than older citizens to the idea of immigration.
2. suitable for a particular type of treatment amenable for/to ▪ Such conditions may be amenable to medical intervention.
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ADVERB less ▪ These are lessamenable to being uncovered by using conventional interviews or survey methods. ▪ But there is another side to the substance abuse equation that may make it lessamenable to interventions. ▪ Never evade their letters or telephone calls, it will only make them lessamenable to your predicament. ▪ But others were both less recent and less amenable to resolution. more ▪ The issue is not the same as issues of consciousness, and fortunately is moreamenable to clearly empirical considerations. ▪ Birmingham may be moreamenable to questioning and more accessible, at least during the first several months. ▪ By stripping concrete objects of their less essential features, they become less involved and hence moreamenable to mathematical treatment. ▪ Doubtless he'd be able to find much moreamenable company on the slopes tomorrow morning. ▪ With much of the preliminary work already done, Ministers were moreamenable to finding the time to legislate. ▪ Such conditions may be much moreamenable to medical intervention than chronic conditions. ▪ They progress much further than Gang into late adolescence, a period moreamenable to bittersweet comedy. ▪ The latter tend to be less emotive and are moreamenable to compromise. most ▪ Carbohydrate replenishment Your body is mostamenable to replenishing muscle glycogen in those first few hours after exercising. ▪ He was concerned with focusing quickly on the areas mostamenable to cost reduction. ▪ They were mostamenable and forwarded a corrected contract without delay. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But there is another side to the substance abuse equation that may make it less amenable to interventions. ▪ Corporate culture is not something easily amenable to management control or manipulation. ▪ He is not amenable to insidious influence. ▪ He was concerned with focusing quickly on the areas most amenable to cost reduction. ▪ No one suggested that non-litigation costs were not amenable to taxation. ▪ No suggestion was made that non-litigation costs were not amenable to being quantified by taxation.