different between amenable vs biddable

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

English

Etymology

bid +? -able

Adjective

biddable (comparative more biddable, superlative most biddable)

1. Docile, amenable or compliant.
   • 1922, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Chapter, [2]

     The conscripts took their fate unquestioning: resignedly, after the custom of Turkish peasantry. […] There was about them a hopeless, fever-wasted lack of initiative, which made them the most biddable, most enduring, and least spirited soldiers in the world.

   • 2005, Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945, Penguin, Part Two, Chapter XIII, p. 431,

     What Western diplomats thought they saw in Bucharest's anti-Russian autocrats were the germs of a new Tito: stable, biddable and more interested in local power than international disruption.

2. (bridge) Suitable for bidding.

Translations

Derived terms

• biddability
• biddably
• unbiddable

Anagrams

• ad libbed, ad-libbed, adlibbed