different between amenable vs harmonious

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 Middle French harmonieux.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /h???mo?ni?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h???m??n??s/
• Hyphenation: har?mo?ni?ous

Adjective

harmonious (comparative more harmonious, superlative most harmonious)

1. Showing accord in feeling or action.
2. Having components pleasingly or appropriately combined.
3. Melodious; in harmony.

Derived terms

• harmoniously
• harmoniousness

Translations

See also

• disharmonious