The difference between Amenable and Docile

When used as adjectives, amenable means willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions, whereas docile means ready to accept instruction or direction.


check bellow for the other definitions of Amenable and Docile

  1. Amenable as an adjective:

    Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.

  2. Amenable as an adjective:

    Willing to comply; easily led.

  3. Amenable as an adjective (math, 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.

  1. Docile as an adjective:

    Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.

  2. Docile as an adjective:

    Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.