amenable :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

adj. vs. unamenable, for example "testable"

adj. disposed or willing to comply; "someone amenable to persuasion"

adj. showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others; "to close one's eyes like a complaisant husband whose wife has taken a lover"; "the obliging waiter was in no hurry for us to leave"

obedient

adj. dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority; "an obedient soldier"; "obedient children"; "a little man obedient to his wife"; "the obedient colonies...are heavily taxed; the refractory remain unburdened"- Edmund Burke

manageable

adj. capable of being managed or controlled

willing

adj. disposed or inclined toward; "a willing participant"; "willing helpers"

tractable

adj. easily managed (controlled or taught or molded); "tractable young minds"; "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler

submissive

adj. inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination; "submissive servants"; "a submissive reply"; "replacing troublemakers with more submissive people"

submissive, conformable

adj. quick to comply; "I have been to you a true and humble wife, at all times to your will conformable"-Shakespeare

yielding, obedient

adj. inclined to yield to argument or influence or control; "a timid yielding person"

prepared, inclined, disposed, fain

adj. having made preparations; "prepared to take risks"

ductile, malleable

adj. easily influenced

favorable, favourable

adj. encouraging or approving or pleasing; "a favorable reply"; "he received a favorable rating"; "listened with a favorable ear"; "made a favorable impression"

good, beneficial, salutary

adj. tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health; "beneficial effects of a balanced diet"; "a good night's sleep"; "the salutary influence of pure air"

suitable

adj. worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse; "the parents found the girl suitable for their son"

docile

adj. willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed; "the docile masses of an enslaved nation"

accommodating, accommodative

adj. helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation; "the warden was always accommodating in allowing visitors in"; "made a special effort to be accommodating"

placid, complacent, self-satisfied

adj. contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions; "he had become complacent after years of success"; "his self-satisfied dignity"

compliant, acquiescent, biddable

adj. willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest; "too acquiescent to challenge authority"

yielding, obliging, complying

adj. (compliant)

nonresistant

adj. offering no resistance

unamenable

adj. not amenable

defiant

adj. boldly resisting authority or an opposing force; "brought up to be aggressive and defiant"; "a defiant attitude"

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