amenable

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /əˈmiːnəbəl/    美 /əˈmɛn.ə.bəl/|/əˈmin.ə.bəl/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
  2. Willing to comply; easily led.
    — The communal nature of ostriches may have made these birds more amenable to life in captivity.
  3. Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable.
  4. Liable to the legal authority of (something).
    — Decisions of the Boards of Appeal are amenable to actions before the Court of Justice of the European Communities.
  5. Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.

词形变化

more amenable comparative most amenable superlative amesnable alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

反义词
unamenable
衍生词
amenableness amenably nonamenable supramenable unamenable

词源

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman amenable, amesnable, from amener (“to bring or lead, fetch in or to”) + -able (“-able”); amener is in turn from a- + mener (“to lead, conduct”), from Late Latin mināre (“to drive”), Latin deponent minārī (“to threaten, menace”).
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