Amenable vs. Amendable

Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.

Willing to comply; easily led.

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

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

Example: ‘decisions of the Boards of Appeal are amenable to actions before the Court of Justice of the European Communities’;

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

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

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

Example: ‘Nor is man too diminutive . . . to be amenable to the divine government.’;

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

Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable.

Example: ‘Sterling . . . always was amenable enough to counsel.’;

disposed or willing to comply;

Example: ‘someone amenable to persuasion’; ‘the spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak’;

readily reacting to suggestions and influences;

Example: ‘a responsive student’;

liable to answer to a higher authority;

Example: ‘the president is amenable to the constitutional court’;

Capable of being amended.

Capable of being amended; as, an amendable writ or error.

capable of being corrected by additions;

Example: ‘an amendable flaw’;