"amenable" in the adjective sense

1. amenable, conformable

disposed or willing to conform

"someone amenable to the instruction of others"

2. amenable, tractable

responsive to suggestions and influences

"a tractable student"

"an amenable child"

3. amenable

open to being acted upon in a certain way

"an amenable hospitalization should not result in untimely death"

"the tumor was not amenable to surgical treatment"

4. amenable

liable to answer to a higher authority

"the president is amenable to the constitutional court"

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