Moot

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Law A hypothetical case argued by law students as an exercise.
  • n. An ancient English meeting, especially a representative meeting of the freemen of a shire.
  • v. To bring up as a subject for discussion or debate.
  • v. To discuss or debate. See Synonyms at broach1.
  • v. Law To plead or argue (a case) in a moot court.
  • adj. Subject to debate; arguable: a moot question.
  • adj. Law Without legal significance, through having been previously decided or settled.
  • adj. Of no practical importance; irrelevant.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Vagina.
  • adj. Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
  • adj. Having no practical impact or relevance.
  • adj. Being an exercise of thought; academic.
  • n. A moot court.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A gathering of Rovers (18 - 26 year-old Scouts). Usually a camp lasting 2 weeks.
  • n. A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
  • v. To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.
  • v. To discuss or debate.
  • v. To make or declare irrelevant.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. See 1st mot.
  • n. A ring for gauging wooden pins.
  • v. To argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion.
  • v. Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court.
  • v. To render inconsequential, as having no effect on the practical outcome; to render academic.
  • verb-intransitive. To argue or plead in a supposed case.
  • n. A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition.
  • n. A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.
  • adj. Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted.
  • adj. Of purely theoretical or academic interest; having no practical consequence.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A meeting; a formal assembly.
  • n. The place of such a meeting.
  • n. In early English history, a court formed by assembling the men of the village or tun, the hundred, or the kingdom, or their representatives.
  • n. Dispute; debate; discussion; specifically, in law, an argument on a hypothetical case by way of practice.
  • Relating to or connected with debatable questions; subject to discussion; discussed or debated; debatable; unsettled.
  • To debate; discuss; argue for and against; introduce or submit for discussion.
  • Specifically
  • In law, to plead or argue (a cause or supposed cause) merely by way of exercise or practice.
  • To speak; utter.
  • To argue; dispute.
  • To plead or argue a supposed cause.
  • n. An obsolete variant of mot.
  • To dig.
  • n. In ship-building:
  • n. A ring used to gage the diameter of treenails.
  • n. A piece of hard wood bound with iron at both ends, used in making blocks.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise
  • v. think about carefully; weigh
  • adj. open to argument or debate
  • adj. of no legal significance (as having been previously decided)
  • Equivalent
    Verb Form
    mooted    mooting    mootness    moots   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    lawsuit    cause    suit    case    causa   
    Cross Reference
    mote    moot court    mark moot   
    Variant
    mot   
    Form
    mooted    mooting    moot court    moot point   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    debate    discuss    undecided    debatable    mooted    assembly    obsolete    irrelevant   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Beirut    Bute    Butte    Jute    Root    Shute    absolut    acute    astute    boot   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts