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amenableadjective having a desire or inclination (as for a specified course of action)whatever you decide to do, I'm amenable—just let me know disposed, fain, game, glad, inclined, minded, ready, willing predisposed, proneaccommodating, agreeable, compliant, cooperative, obedient, obliging, submissivefavorable, receptiveprepared, prompt, quick, responsive, swiftdesirous, eager, enthused, enthusiastic, excited disinclined, unamenable, unwilling averse, loath(also loth or loathe), reluctant, reticent readily giving in to the command or authority of anotherour normally balky cat becomes the most amenable of creatures when confronted with the strange environment of the veterinary clinic biddable, compliant, conformable, docile, law-abiding, obedient, submissive, tractable acquiescent, agreeable, amiable, duteous, dutiful, obliging, placablesoft, surrendering, yieldingfawning, kowtowing, obeisant, obsequious, servile, slavish, subordinate, subservientdecorous, disciplined, mannerly, orderlyconstrained, curbed, inhibited, repressed, restrainedcontrollable, disciplinable, governable, handleable, manageable, tame, teachable, trainablegentle, meek, mild balky, contrary, contumacious, defiant, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, intractable, noncompliant, obstreperous, rebel, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, unamenable, ungovernable, unruly, untoward, wayward, willful(or wilful) insurgent, mutinousdogged, hardheaded, headstrong, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, peevish, pigheaded, self-willed, stubborn, unyieldinguncontrollable, unmanageable, wildbalky, defiant, perverse, resistantbad, disorderly, errant, misbehaving, mischievous, naughtyill-bred, undisciplineddissident, nonconformistdisrespectful, ill-mannered, impolite, impudent, insolent, rude being the one who must meet an obligation or suffer the consequences for failing to do soeven our nation's highest leaders must remain amenable to the law responsible, answerable, accountable, amenable, liable mean subject to being held to account.responsible implies holding a specific office, duty, or trust.the bureau responsible for revenue collection answerable suggests a relation between one having a moral or legal obligation and a court or other authority charged with oversight of its observance.an intelligence agency answerable to Congress accountable suggests imminence of retribution for unfulfilled trust or violated obligation.elected officials are accountable to the voters amenable and liable stress the fact of subjection to review, censure, or control by a designated authority under certain conditions.laws are amenable to judicial review not liable for the debts of the former spouse in 1596 |