amenable
If your friends want to try sky diving and you're amenable to the idea, sounds like you're going to be jumping out of a plane. If a person or thing is amenable to something, they are ready, willing, or responsive.
Note that amenable is often followed by the preposition to, which makes amenable mean "able to be controlled or affected by something," as in: "They are usually amenable to our wishes" or "Her heart condition is not amenable to treatment." An amenable personality is open to influence or control and is willing to agree or yield.
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disposed or willing to comply
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liable to answer to a higher authority“the president is amenable to the constitutional court”synonyms:responsibleworthy of or requiring responsibility or trust; or held accountable
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readily reacting to suggestions and influencessynonyms: tractablesusceptible(often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of
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open to being acted upon in a certain way“an amenable hospitalization should not result in untimely death”“the tumor was not amenable to surgical treatment”synonyms:susceptible(often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of
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