moot

IPA: mˈut

noun

  • A moot court.
  • A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.
  • (scouting) A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks.
  • (paganism) A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
  • (historical) An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).
  • (shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins.
  • (Scotland, Northern England) A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
  • (Scotland, Northern England, rustic) Talk.
  • (Australia) Vagina.
  • (West Country) The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.
  • (Internet slang, endearing) A mutual follower on a social media platform.

verb

  • To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.
  • To discuss or debate.
  • (US) To make or declare irrelevant.
  • To argue or plead in a supposed case.
  • (regional, obsolete) To talk or speak.
  • (Scotland, Northern England) To say, utter, also insinuate.
  • (West Country) To take root and begin to grow.
  • (West Country) To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with a snout.

adjective

  • (current in UK, rare in the US) Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
  • (Canada, US, chiefly law) Being an exercise of thought; academic.
  • (Canada, US) Having no practical consequence or relevance.
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Examples of "moot" in Sentences

  • The result of the debate was moot.
  • The court dismissed the case as moot.
  • Thus the predictive value of dreams is moot.
  • Furthermore, the reliability of the source is moot.
  • The origins of the faith is moot and does not matter.
  • The advantage of a low virulence strategy becomes moot.
  • However the format of the moot is significantly different.
  • In the end of the day, the point is moot, which may be the problem.
  • The discussion and the issues are not moot because of the reversion.
  • The section on the reliability of the polling data is especially moot.

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