Amenable vs. Amendable
Difference Between Amenable and Amendable
Amenable➦
Willing to accept a suggestion or submit to authority
"a class that is all the more amenable to control for living perpetually under the threat of deportation" (Amitav Ghosh).
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Amendable➦
To change for the better; improve
"The confinement appeared to have had very little effect in amending his conduct" (Horatio Alger).
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Amenable➦
Ready to consent; agreeable
Are you amenable to a change in schedule?.
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Amendable➦
To alter the wording of (a legal document, for example) so as to make more suitable or acceptable.
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Amenable➦
Responsible to higher authority; accountable
amenable to the law.
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Amendable➦
To enrich (soil), especially by mixing in organic matter or sand.
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Amenable➦
Susceptible or open, as to testing or criticism
"The phenomenon of mind ... is much more complex, though also more amenable to scientific investigation, than anyone suspected" (Michael D. Lemonick).
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Amendable➦
To better one's conduct; reform.
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Amenable➦
Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
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Amendable➦
Capable of being amended.
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Amenable➦
Willing to comply; easily led.
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Amendable➦
Capable of being amended; as, an amendable writ or error.
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Amenable➦
Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable.
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Amendable➦
capable of being corrected by additions;
an amendable flaw
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Amenable➦
(law) Liable to the legal authority of (something).
decisions of the Boards of Appeal are amenable to actions before the Court of Justice of the European Communities
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Amenable➦
Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.
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Amenable➦
Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband.
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Amenable➦
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.
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Amenable➦
Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc.
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Amenable➦
Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable.
Sterling . . . always was amenable enough to counsel.
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Amenable➦
disposed or willing to comply;
someone amenable to persuasion
the spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak
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Amenable➦
readily reacting to suggestions and influences;
a responsive student
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Amenable➦
liable to answer to a higher authority;
the president is amenable to the constitutional court
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