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adjective
1.
open to discussion or debate; debatable; doubtful: a moot point.
2.
of little or no practical value or meaning; purely academic.
3.
Chiefly Law. not actual; theoretical; hypothetical.
verb (used with object)
4.
to present or introduce (any point, subject, project, etc.) for discussion.
5.
to reduce or remove the practical significance of; make purely theoretical or academic.
6.
Archaic. to argue (a case), especially in a mock court.
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noun
7.
an assembly of the people in early England exercising political, administrative, and judicial powers.
8.
an argument or discussion, especially of a hypothetical legal case.
9.
Obsolete. a debate, argument, or discussion.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English mot(e) meeting, assembly, Old English gemōt; cognate with Old Norse mōt, Dutch gemoet meeting. See meet1
before 900; Middle English mot(e) meeting, assembly, Old English gemōt; cognate with Old Norse mōt, Dutch gemoet meeting. See meet1
Related forms
moot·er, noun
moot·ness, noun
Synonyms
1. disputable, disputed, unsettled. 4. debate, dispute, discuss.
1. disputable, disputed, unsettled. 4. debate, dispute, discuss.
Antonyms
1. indisputable. 4. agree.
1. indisputable. 4. agree.
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moot (muːt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | subject or open to debate: a moot point |
| —vb | |
| 2. | (tr) to suggest or bring up for debate |
| 3. | (intr) to plead or argue theoretical or hypothetical cases, as an academic exercise or as vocational training for law students |
| —n | |
| 4. | a discussion or debate of a hypothetical case or point, held as an academic activity |
| 5. | (in Anglo-Saxon England) an assembly, mainly in a shire or hundred, dealing with local legal and administrative affairs |
| [Old English gemōt; compare Old Saxon mōt, Middle High German muoze meeting] | |
| 'mooter | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
moot
1154, from O.E. gemot "meeting" (especially of freemen, to discuss community affairs or mete justice), from P.Gmc. *ga-motan (cf. Old Low Frankish muot "encounter," M.Du. moet, M.H.G. muoz), from collective prefix *ga- + *motan (see meet (v.)). The adj. senses of "debatable"
and "not worth considering" arose from moot case, earlier simply moot (n.) "discussion of a hypothetical law case" (1531), in law student jargon, in ref. to students gathering to test their skills in mock cases.
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Example sentences
That's seven-or-so months that he could consolidate his position and make moot this whole fracas.
If you can't even convey the idea of expanding space, then all those secondary points are moot.
Anyway, the point soon became moot because the economics of the arrangement stopped working.
All these discussions are moot.
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