moot
23
7.4
- adjective
- /muːt/
:
discutible
- Yet that's a moot point since you did actually sign this document.
Examples
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Is that a possibility, or is that pretty much a moot point?
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Whether or not this is the case is, for the moment, a moot point.
Academic text (1998) -
But it is a moot point, because it is not I you are looking for.
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It's a moot point, anyhow.
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In the short term, whether emergency teaching permits should be granted or not is a moot question.
Academic text (1998) -
Whether a global culture of disaster prevention can be achieved is a moot point.
Academic text (2006) -
The entire process will be rendered moot if counting cannot be done properly.
Blog text (15) -
The point is moot.
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That's a moot point.
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The proposal to change the schedule is a moot issue since everyone has already agreed.
Synonyms
34
5.0
Open to question or discussion
12
6.0
Open to doubt or debate because it may not be true
2
6.6
Open to argument or doubt
Antonyms
Compounds
How Debatable
423
5.0
62
7.4
23
7.4
176
3.9
34
5.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Moot comes from an old English word mōt meaning 'meeting', much like the common word meet. So a moot point was originally something brought to a meeting to discuss, which is why it means 'open to argument'.