Moot

Quick meaning: Moot is an adjective meaning (current in UK, rare in the US) Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.

Meaning

(current in UK, rare in the US) Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.

More Meanings

1. (Canada, US, chiefly law) Being an exercise of thought; academic.
2. (Canada, US, uncommon in the UK) Having no practical consequence or relevance.
3. A moot court.
4. (scouting) A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting two weeks.
5. (paganism) A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
6. 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.
7. (historical) An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).

Example Sentences

The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots.

That point may make for a good discussion, but it is moot.

The extent to which these Parisian radicals ‘represented’ the French people as a whole was very moot.

[…] :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 was a moot point whether or not we could get out of: […]

Word Forms

• moots
• mooting
• mooted

Synonyms for moot

Depending on context, synonyms include irrelevant, obsolete, table, propose, bespeak, treat.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include debate, debatable, deliberate, contestable, consider, disputable.

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