Amenable vs. Obstinate — What's the Difference?

Willing to accept a suggestion or submit to authority

Stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or chosen course of action, despite attempts to persuade one to do so

Ready to consent; agreeable

Stubbornly adhering to an attitude, opinion, or course of action; obdurate.

Responsible to higher authority; accountable

Characterized by such adherence

Susceptible or open, as to testing or criticism

Difficult to manage, control, or treat

Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.

Stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.

Willing to comply; easily led.

(of inanimate things) Not easily subdued or removed.

Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable.

(of a facial feature) Typical of an obstinate person; fixed and unmoving.

(law) Liable to the legal authority of (something).

Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course; persistent; not yielding to reason, arguments, or other means; stubborn; pertinacious; - usually implying unreasonableness.

Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.

Not yielding; not easily subdued or removed; as, obstinate fever; obstinate obstructions.

Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband.

Persist stubbornly;

Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law.

Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc.

Resistant to guidance or discipline;

Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable.

Persisting in a reactionary stand

Disposed or willing to comply;

Readily reacting to suggestions and influences;

Liable to answer to a higher authority;