amenable
adjective
[ əˈmiːnəb(ə)l ]
• open and responsive to suggestion; easily persuaded or controlled.
• "parents who have amenable children"
Similar:
compliant,
acquiescent,
biddable,
manageable,
controllable,
governable,
persuadable,
tractable,
responsive,
pliant,
flexible,
malleable,
complaisant,
accommodating,
docile,
submissive,
obedient,
tame,
meek,
easily handled,
persuasible,
Origin:
late 16th century (in the sense ‘liable to answer to a law or tribunal’): an Anglo-Norman French legal term, from Old French amener ‘bring to’ from a- (from Latin ad ) ‘to’ + mener ‘bring’ (from late Latin minare ‘drive animals’, from Latin minari ‘threaten’).
