Amenable is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for AMENABLE in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• capable of being persuaded
• capable of being acted upon in a particular way; susceptible
• open and responsive to suggestion; easily persuaded or controlled
• likely or willing to cooperate
• Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband.
• Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law.
• Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc.
• Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable.
• disposed or willing to comply
• readily reacting to suggestions and influences
• open to being acted upon in a certain way
• liable to answer to a higher authority

Words related to AMENABLE

amenabilities17 amenability18 amenableness16 amenablenesses18 amenably15

Words that contain AMENABLE

unamenable14 amenableness16 amenablenesses18

How to use AMENABLE in a sentence

• She found him amenable to reason in the shape of several hundred pounds which passed through the Brighton post office into his hands.
• They must also be amenable to competent tribunals, Federal or State.
• Reverchon had now been invited with similar intentions, and Renee was no more amenable than before.
• He put no veto on any request of this kind, holding the smiths and mechanics of the government amenable to comply with any order.
• Murdstone, are amenable to justice and reason only when they know that their proposed victim can at any time break the chains with which they would bind her.
• The scriptures frequently allude to the fact, that wrong done by law, that is by society, is amenable to the same retribution as wrong done by the individual.
• To the same eternal laws and principles are we, and it, amenable.
• He had shown himself amenable to reason at the last moment.
• I will only add that you will find me amenable to reason.
• Consequently the boys become rougher and less amenable.
• It is especially worthy of observation, however, that sandy soils are the most readily amenable of any to the operation of tillage.
• Masanath was most amenable to this manner of entreaty, since it disarmed her pride while it governed her impulses.
• The carpenter-ant has no moral sense, and is not amenable either to kindness or blows.
• For, though they had not brought sorrow or shame to his house, they seemed as little amenable to the discipline he had hoped to exert in his family as the boys were.
• To put this altogether out of dispute, a clause was inserted in our consular convention with France, making them amenable to the laws of the land, as other inhabitants.
• The juries, our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it, are not selected by the people, nor amenable to them.
• If we find that the functions of human life are amenable to a mechanical explanation we cannot hesitate to believe that this will be equally true of the lower orders of nature.
• He had seemed so amenable that at first she could hardly believe that the steed which she had led to waters of such divers merit would refuse to drink from any of them.
• The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others.
• But a certain type of southern statesmanship was not amenable to reason.
• The teacher says they are very amenable to discipline.
• It was not only on the brightness of the cheek that May dew was believed to have a marvellous effect, but many physical ailments were amenable to its virtues.
• These defective conditions are amenable to treatment whereby the functional efficiency of the pupil is improved.
• These are all amenable to cure, which again means, as a rule, correct diet and proper exercise as the principal remedial agencies.
• There were two ward surgeons who disapproved of the innovation of a woman in Campbell, and especially of one held amenable to no rules.
• I, too, am an American citizen, and on English territory I have committed no crime which makes me amenable to the crown of England.
• Denry ran upstairs again, in search of more amenable material.
• Do anything rather than render yourself amenable to the accursed tribunal I have named.
• The subject is, I think, more curious and more amenable to scientific treatment than you seem willing to allow.

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