ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence, persuasion, or advice; agreeable; submissive; tractable: an amenable servant.
2.
liable to be called to account; answerable; legally responsible: You are amenable for this debt.
3.
capable of or agreeable to being tested, tried, analyzed, etc.
Origin: 1590–1600; < Anglo-French, equivalent to Middle Frenchamen(er) to lead to (a-a-5 + mener < Late Latinmināre for Latinminārī to drive) + -able-able
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
1590s, "liable," from M.Fr. amener "answerable" (to the law), from à "to" + mener "to lead," from L. minare "to drive (cattle) with shouts," var. of minari "threaten" (see menace). Sense of "tractable" is from 1803, from notion of disposed to answer or submit to influence.