Not responsive to something; not capable of being treated or dealt with in a particular way.
the protesters were unamenable to rational debate
her coronary disease was deemed unamenable to intervention
Example sentencesExamples
Capitalism, therefore, is simply unamenable to any 'causal analysis'.
In 1946 The British Medical Journal suggested that the "good-time girl unamenable to discipline and control" was a serious social problem.
Once operational, the prototype under construction will be largely unamenable to "new ideas".
On that point my mind is unamenable to persuasion.
Slavery remained an intractable and growing problem, unamenable to existing British naval and diplomatic activity.
One consequence of his death is that his personal opinions are now set in stone, unamenable to adaptation.
There were, however, several regiments of Ho-nan irregular cavalry, all of whom were reckless horsemen and unamenable to anything like discipline.
This is why I am very unamenable to the notion that we should switch to a gold or any other commodity-based standard.
Although continued arrests will land an individual in jail for 30 days if they are determined unamenable to treatment, the new law makes serving time less likely.
Definition of unamenable in US English:
unamenable
adjective
Not responsive to suggestion or persuasion; difficult to persuade or control.
the protesters were unamenable to rational debate
Example sentencesExamples
There were, however, several regiments of Ho-nan irregular cavalry, all of whom were reckless horsemen and unamenable to anything like discipline.
This is why I am very unamenable to the notion that we should switch to a gold or any other commodity-based standard.
One consequence of his death is that his personal opinions are now set in stone, unamenable to adaptation.
On that point my mind is unamenable to persuasion.
Capitalism, therefore, is simply unamenable to any 'causal analysis'.
Slavery remained an intractable and growing problem, unamenable to existing British naval and diplomatic activity.
Although continued arrests will land an individual in jail for 30 days if they are determined unamenable to treatment, the new law makes serving time less likely.
Once operational, the prototype under construction will be largely unamenable to "new ideas".
In 1946 The British Medical Journal suggested that the "good-time girl unamenable to discipline and control" was a serious social problem.