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amesnable

amesnable is the obsolete form of amenable.

Meaning of amenable

Adjective

amenable (comparative more amenable, superlative most amenable)

  1. Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
  2. Willing to comply; easily led.
    • The communal nature of ostriches may have made these birds more amenable to life in captivity.2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine
  3. Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable.
  4. 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.
  5. Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.

Forms of amesnable

comparativemore amesnable
superlativemost amesnable

Questions about amesnable

What is amesnable the obsolete form of?
Amesnable is the obsolete form of amenable.

Words near amesnable in the dictionary

  1. Amesha Spenta
  2. Amesha Spentas
  3. amesing
  4. amesite
  5. Ameslan
  6. amesnable
  7. Amesquita
  8. Amesquitas
  9. amess
  10. amesses
  11. Amesti

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Adapted from Wiktionary: amesnable (page history and authors); amenable (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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