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moot is an adjective, noun and verb meaning "of no legal significance (as having been previously decided)". It is pronounced /ˈmut/ — moot. It carries 4 recorded senses.
open to argument or debate
“that is a moot question”
a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise
“he organized the weekly moot”
law
think about carefully; weigh
“They considered the possibility of a strike”
“Turn the proposal over in your mind”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for moot come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.