Word Meanings - AMENABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband. Jacob. 2. Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law. Nor is man too diminutive . . . to be amenable to the divine government. I.
Additional info about word: AMENABLE
Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband. Jacob. 2. Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law. Nor is man too diminutive . . . to be amenable to the divine government. I. Taylor. 3. Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc. 4. Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable. Sterling . . . always was amenable enough to counsel. Carlyle. (more info) minare to drive animals , in LL. to
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AMENABLE)
- Accountable
- Responsible
- liable
- amenable
- punishable
- answerable
- accredited
- delegated
- Answerable
- Liable
- accountable
- responsible
- correspondent
- agreeing
- Corrigible
- Amenable
- docile
- tractable
- Docile
- Compliant
- easily managed
- yielding
- gentle
- quiet
- pliant
- teachable
- tame
- Obnoxious
- Odious
- detrimental
- pernicious
- blameworthy
- offensive
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of AMENABLE)
Related words: (words related to AMENABLE)
- RESPONSIBLE
1. Liable to respond; likely to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable; as, a guardian is responsible to the court for his conduct in the office. 2. Able to respond or answer for one's conduct and obligations; trustworthy, - OBNOXIOUS
1. Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to. The writings of lawyers, which are tied obnoxious to their particular laws. Bacon. Esteeming it more honorable to live on the public than to be obnoxious to any private purse. Milton. - TEACHABLENESS
Willingness to be taught. - AGITATE
1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly - ACCREDIT
1. To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction. His censure will . . . accredit his praises. Cowper. These reasons . . . which accredit and fortify mine opinion. Shelton. 2. To send with letters credential, as an - GENTLE
1. To make genteel; to raise from the vulgar; to ennoble. Shak. 2. To make smooth, cozy, or agreeable. To gentle life's descent, We shut our eyes, and think it is a plain. Young. 3. To make kind and docile, as a horse. - ACCREDITATION
The act of accrediting; as, letters of accreditation. - OFFENSIVE
1. Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words. 2. Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds. "Offensive to the stomach." - YIELDABLE
Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall. - YIELDANCE
1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South. - PUNISHABLE
Deserving of, or liable to, punishment; capable of being punished by law or right; -- said of person or offenses. That time was, when to be a Protestant, to be a Christian, was by law as punishable as to be a traitor. Milton. -- Pun"ish*a*ble*ness, - YIELDING
Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying , the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill. Syn. -- - COMPLIANT
Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive. "The compliant boughs." Milton. - EXCITEFUL
Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman. - DELEGATION
A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him. Pothier. (more info) 1. The act of delegating, or investing - QUIETER
One who, or that which, quiets. - GENTLEWOMAN
1. A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon. 2. A woman who attends a lady of high rank. Shak. - MANAGEABLE
Such as can be managed or used; suffering control; governable; tractable; subservient; as, a manageable horse. Syn. -- Governable; tractable; controllable; docile. -- Man"age*a*ble*ness, n. -- Man"age*a*bly, adv. - DISTURBANCE
The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone. Syn. -- Tumult; brawl; commotion; turmoil; - AGREER
One who agrees. - UNCORRIGIBLE
Incorrigible; not capable of correction. - DISAGREEABLENESS
The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness. - ROUSE
To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances. - DISQUIETTUDE
Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp. - UNAPPLIABLE
Inapplicable. Milton. - TROUSERING
Cloth or material for making trousers. - EFFLAGITATE
To ask urgently. Cockeram. - YIELD
pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be - DISQUIETLY
In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman. - MISMANAGER
One who manages ill. - COMMODIOUSLY
In a commodious manner. To pass commodiously this life. Milton. - UNQUIET
To disquiet. Ld. Herbert. - TROUSE
Trousers. Spenser. - SUBDELEGATE
A subordinate delegate, or one with inferior powers. - SHAGREEN; SHAGREENED
Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen. (more info) 1. Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. "A shagreen case of lancets." T. Hook. - INCORRIGIBLENESS
Incorrigibility. Dr. H. More.