moot
adjective
[ muːt ]
• subject to debate, dispute, or uncertainty.
• "whether they had been successful or not was a moot point"
Similar:
debatable,
open to debate,
open to discussion,
arguable,
questionable,
at issue,
open to question,
open,
doubtful,
open to doubt,
disputable,
contestable,
controvertible,
problematic,
problematical,
controversial,
contentious,
vexed,
disputed,
unresolved,
unsettled,
up in the air,
undecided,
yet to be decided,
undetermined,
unconcluded,
• having little or no practical relevance, typically because the subject is too uncertain to allow a decision.
• "the whole matter is becoming increasingly moot"
moot
verb
• raise (a question or topic) for discussion; suggest (an idea or possibility).
• "the scheme was first mooted last October"
Similar:
raise,
bring up,
broach,
mention,
put forward,
introduce,
advance,
present,
propose,
suggest,
submit,
propound,
air,
ventilate,
moot
noun
• an assembly held for debate, especially in Anglo-Saxon and medieval times.
• a mock judicial proceeding set up to examine a hypothetical case as an academic exercise.
• "the object of a moot is to provide practice in developing an argument"
Origin:
Old English mōt ‘assembly or meeting’ and mōtian ‘to converse’, of Germanic origin; related to meet1. The adjective (originally an attributive noun use: see moot court) dates from the mid 16th century; the current verb sense dates from the mid 17th century.
