moot

  • 21moot — I. /mut / (say mooht) adjective 1. subject to argument or discussion; debatable; doubtful: a moot proposition. 2. Originally US of purely academic interest; irrelevant. –verb (t) 3. to bring forward (any point, subject, project, etc.) for… …

  • 22moot — moot1 mooter, n. mootness, n. /mooht/, adj. 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. v.t. 4. to… …

    Universalium

  • 23moot — 1. adjective /muːt/ a) Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve. :indeed we were obligd to hawl off rather in a hurry for the wind freshning a little we found ourselves in a bay which it… …

    Wiktionary

  • 24moot — 1 adjective 1 a moot point/question something that has not yet been decided, and about which people have different opinions: Whether these controls will really reduce violent crime is a moot point. 2 AmE a situation or possible action that is… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 25Moot — Mot Mot (m[=o]t), v. [Sing. pres. ind. {Mot}, {Mote}, {Moot} (m[=o]t), pl. {Mot}, {Mote}, {Moote}, pres. subj. {Mote}; imp. {Moste}.] [See {Must}, v.] [Obs.] May; must; might. [1913 Webster] He moot as well say one word as another Chaucer. [1913… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 26moot — moot1 [ mut ] adjective 1. ) AMERICAN no longer important, because a particular situation has changed or no longer exists 2. ) a moot point, question, or issue is one that people disagree about moot moot 2 [ mut ] verb transitive FORMAL to… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 27moot — [OE] Etymologically, a ‘moot point’ is one talked about at a ‘meeting’. For ‘meeting’ is the original sense of the noun moot – particularly as applied in early medieval England to a meeting functioning as a court of law. The word goes back to a… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 28moot — I UK [muːt] / US [mut] adjective 1) a moot point, question, or issue is one that people disagree about 2) American no longer important, because a particular situation has changed or no longer exists II UK [muːt] / US [mut] verb [transitive] Word… …

    English dictionary

  • 29moot — [OE] Etymologically, a ‘moot point’ is one talked about at a ‘meeting’. For ‘meeting’ is the original sense of the noun moot – particularly as applied in early medieval England to a meeting functioning as a court of law. The word goes back to a… …

    Word origins

  • 30Moot — A meeting or gathering of people; also, the place of the meeting, namely moot hall and moot hill. [OldEngl. mot = assembly, society, court] Cf. Gemot; Witenagemot …

    Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases