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発音

• IPA^(key): /əˈmiːnəbəl/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /əˈmɛn.ə.bəl/

韻: -ɛnəbəl

形容詞

amenable (comparative more amenable, superlative most amenable)

1. Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.

   Synonyms: persuadable, agreeable

   Coordinate terms: (stronger かつ more negative) suggestible, gullible

2. Willing to comply; easily led.

   Synonyms: compliant, complaisant

   • 2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine‎^[1]:

     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. (law) 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. (mathematics, of a group) Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.

反意語

• unamenable

Further reading

• “amenable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “amenable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• amenable at OneLook Dictionary Search

アナグラム

• beanmeal, meanable, nameable