moot
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
law
lifestyle
manufacturing
paganism
religion
shipbuilding
Etymology: From Middle English mōt, ȝemōt, from Old English *mōt, ġemōt (“meeting”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtą, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to encounter, come”). Cognate with Scots mut, mote (“meeting, assembly”), Low German Mööt (“meeting”), Moot (“meeting”), archaic Dutch (ge)moet (“meeting”), Danish møde (“meeting”), Swedish möte (“meeting”), Norwegian møte (“meeting”), Icelandic mót (“meeting, tournament, meet”). Related to meet. The adjective derives from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: more moot
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most moot
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: moots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: moots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mooting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mooted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mooted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: […] :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: […]
[T]he uncertain, unsettled condition of this science of Cetology is in the very vestibule attested by the fact, that in some quarters it still remains a moot point whether a whale be a fish.
The extent to which these Parisian radicals ‘represented’ the French people as a whole was very moot.
gloss: Being an exercise of thought; academic.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
gloss: Having no practical consequence or relevance.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
uncommon
examples: That point may make for a good discussion, but it is moot.
The question [whether certain poetry was present in the original Hebrew Psalms] in our own time is moot, since various considerations have made it certain that, of all the hazards presented by biblical translation, a dangerous excess of beauty is not one of them.
gloss: A moot court.
pos: noun
examples: The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting two weeks.
pos: noun
gloss: A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
pos: noun
gloss: An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A ring for gauging wooden pins.
pos: noun
gloss: To bring up as a subject for debate.
pos: verb
examples: A number of other mergers of U.S. railroads are mooted, but the I.C.C. [Interstate Commerce Commission] has made it clear that its assent to the N.& W.-Virginian proposal, which was unopposed by competitors or stockholders, should not be taken as an indication that others will swiftly pass its scrutiny.
The general idea was first mooted a couple of years ago by Philip Hammond, then Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer, as a means of encouraging the EU to strike a friendly Brexit deal with the UK.
gloss: To discuss or debate.
pos: verb
examples: a problem which hardly has been mentioned, far less mooted, in this country
First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men, containing some doubtful controversy.
An elevated cycleway connecting Los Angeles and Pasadena was mooted as early as 1896 …
gloss: To make or declare irrelevant.
pos: verb
tags: US
gloss: To argue or plead in a supposed case.
pos: verb
examples: There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting.
gloss: To talk or speak.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
regional
examples: In that mater now I will mute no moir.
gloss: To say, utter, also insinuate.
pos: verb
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
Related words: meet
Derived words: moot court
mootness
moot point
ward moot
entmoot
folkmoot
gemoot
moot hall
moothill
mootie
mootman
moot-stow
tun-moot
mootable
mooter
Translations: