different between amenable vs polite

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

From Latin pol?tus (“polished”), past participle of poli? (“I polish, smooth”); see polish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??la?t/

Adjective

polite (comparative politer or more polite, superlative politest or most polite)

1. Well-mannered, civilized.
   • 1733, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Bathurst

     He marries, bows at court, and grows polite.

2. (obsolete) Smooth, polished, burnished.

   • rays of light […] falling on […] a polite surface

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:polite

Antonyms

• impolite
• rude

Derived terms

• over-polite
• politeness
• polite literature
• polite society

Related terms

• polish

Translations

Verb

polite (third-person singular simple present polites, present participle politing, simple past and past participle polited)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To polish; to refine; to render polite.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “polite”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• piolet, topile

Italian

Adjective

polite f pl

1. feminine plural of polito

Anagrams

• pilote

Latin

Verb

pol?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of poli?

References

• polite in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• polite in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers