different between adaptable vs amenable

English

Etymology

adapt +? -able

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??dæpt?b?l/

Adjective

adaptable (comparative more adaptable, superlative most adaptable)

1. Capable of adapting or of being adapted.

   Antonyms: unadaptable, inadaptable

Synonyms

• adaptive

Derived terms

• adaptability
• adaptableness
• adaptably
• inadaptable
• maladaptable
• unadaptable

Related terms

• adapt

Translations

References

• adaptable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Catalan

Etymology

adaptar +? -able

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?.d?p?ta.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a.dap?ta.ble/

Adjective

adaptable (masculine and feminine plural adaptables)

1. adaptable (capable of adapting or being adapted)

   Antonym: inadaptable

Derived terms

• adaptabilitat

Further reading

• “adaptable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

From adapter +? -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.dap.tabl/

Adjective

adaptable (plural adaptables)

1. adaptable (capable of adapting or being adapted)

   Antonym: inadaptable

Derived terms

• adaptabilité

Further reading

• “adaptable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Alternative forms

• adaptábel

Etymology

From adaptar +? -able.

Adjective

adaptable m or f (plural adaptables)

1. adaptable (capable of adapting or being adapted)

   Antonyms: inadaptable, inadaptábel

Derived terms

• adabtabilidade

Further reading

• “adaptable” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Scots

Etymology

adapt +? -able

Adjective

adaptable (comparative mair adaptable, superlative maist adaptable)

1. adaptable

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

Spanish

Etymology

From adaptar +? -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /adab?table/, [a.ð?a???t?a.??le]

Adjective

adaptable (plural adaptables)

1. adaptable (capable of adapting or being adapted)

   Antonym: inadaptable

Derived terms

• adaptabilidad

Further reading

• “adaptable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From French as if *amenable, from amener (“to bring or lead, fetch in or to”), from a- + mener (“to lead, conduct”), from Late Latin min?re (“to drive”), Latin deponent min?r? (“to threaten, menace”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??mi?n?bl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??m?n.?.b?l/

Rhymes: -?n?b?l

Adjective

amenable (comparative more amenable, superlative most amenable)

1. Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
2. Willing to comply; easily led.
3. Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable.
4. (law) Liable to the legal authority of (something).

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

Antonyms

• unamenable

Translations

Further reading

• amenable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• amenable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• amenable at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• beanmeal, meanable, nameable