Adjective(1) of no legal significance (as having been previously decided),open to argument or debate,doubtful,arguable(2) of no legal significance (as having been previously decided)(3) open to argument or debate(4) doubtful(5) arguable
Noun(1) a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise
Verb(1) think about carefully; weigh(2) think about carefully(3) weigh
Adjective(1) of no legal significance (as having been previously decided),open to argument or debate,doubtful,arguable(2) of no legal significance (as having been previously decided)(3) open to argument or debate(4) doubtful(5) arguable
Noun(1) a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise
Verb(1) think about carefully; weigh(2) think about carefully(3) weigh
(1) But the time may be fast approaching when this debate becomes moot .(2) Whether or not the broadcaster's blindness has made his hearing more acute is a moot point, but what can't be denied is that his ability to describe his remaining senses is second to none.(3) How great a comedian he was remains a moot point, inevitably subjective, and increasingly difficult to separate from the mythology.(4) How much the appeal of this movie derives from its subject and how much from Spacey is a moot point, I suppose.(5) Thus, it is a moot question whether a child who learns all about traffic rules and signs through textbooks and in such parks, will abide by them, or instead imitate their elders.(6) I had never studied international law before the gruelling four months of my life that the moot eventually consumed.(7) If a foetus is not human, then it is not protected under the law and the entire abortion debate is moot .(8) I won the moot , despite having to argue an unwinnable point of law.(9) Thanks do not go out to my alarm clocks, which failed to work this morning resulting in my awakening in absolute panic at 2 pm, with only one third of the moot prepared.(10) Whether he is too softly spoken for the top job remains a moot point, but no-one can question his dedication because he spends six days of the week at Irish's training ground.(11) Even if, as some have supposed, the manor court, or hall moot , had Anglo-Saxon forebears, it was an institution that must have changed out of all recognition after 1100.(12) Which of the two camps was having a better time may be a moot point, but there can be no dispute as to which was living most successfully in the here and now.(13) Still, it's a moot point and one that lawyers will enjoy debating if they're given the chance.(14) Joseph Gerrald, after all, had proposed the Convention, likening it to the folk moot of Saxon England.(15) As a poet, he is now unfashionable, so it is a moot question whether a play based on him can be of any current interest.(16) Whether this defence will be accepted by the political sources who are the lifeblood of any newspaper is, for the time being, a moot point.
