Meaning

2 senses
  1. An issue that is subject to, or open for, discussion or debate, to which no satisfactory answer is found; originally, one to be definitively determined by an assembly of the people.

    Streitpunkt, offene Frage, fragliche Sache

    спо́рный вопро́сspórnyj voprós

    спі́рне пита́нняspírne pytánnja

  2. An issue hardly worth debating because it is no longer practically applicable.

    Until we rebuild downtown, whether we build more parking spaces is a moot point.

    Who really owned that horse is a moot point now that it has run away.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. That's a moot point for now.

    Це питання наразі неактуальне.

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  2. It's a moot point now anyway.

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  3. That's a moot point.

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  4. It's a moot point.

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  5. Because our trip was cancelled, Tom and Ginny's argument about where to eat on the way became a moot point.

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
issue that is open for debate:
Русский
By meaning 1
issue that is open for debate:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
issue that is open for debate:
issue that has been rendered irrelevant:

Origin

From moot (“assembly”) + point.

From moot (“assembly”) + point.

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Forms

plural: moot points
Singularmoot point
Pluralmoot points

regular

Word family

1 related words
Relatednon-issue

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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