amenable

comparative more amenable · superlative most amenable · alternative obsolete amesnable

1. Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.

   Synonyms: persuadable, agreeable

2. Willing to comply; easily led.

   The communal nature of ostriches may have made these birds more amenable to life in captivity.

   2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine

   Synonyms: compliant, complaisant, biddable, complaisant, compliant, controllable, docile, governable

3. Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable.
4. lawLiable 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. mathematicsBeing a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.