Synonyms for moot
mutmoot

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1. moot

   Synonyms:
   agitate, discuss, ventilate, argue

   Antonyms:
   suppress, stifle, burke, hush, shelve

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1. mootadjective

   a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise

   "he organized the weekly moot"

   Antonyms:
   uncontroversial, relevant, noncontroversial

2. mootadjective

   of no legal significance (as having been previously decided)

   Synonyms:
   arguable, debatable, disputable

   Antonyms:
   uncontroversial, noncontroversial, relevant

3. arguable, debatable, disputable, mootverb

   open to argument or debate

   "that is a moot question"

   Synonyms:
   arguable, problematical, debatable, disputable, problematic

   Antonyms:
   relevant, uncontroversial, noncontroversial

4. consider, debate, moot, turn over, deliberateverb

   think about carefully; weigh

   "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind"

   Synonyms:
   turn, reckon, dig, flip, pass on, weigh, view, debate, fence, reach, take, roll, study, see, deal, tump over, think, contend, conceive, give, deliberate, overturn, bowl over, delve, pass, tip over, count, upset, believe, flip over, turn over, regard, argue, consider, knock over, look at, hand, cut into

   Antonyms:
   uncontroversial, noncontroversial, relevant

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1. mutual

   Submitted by ryan_1 on December 28, 2020  

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1. mootverb

   Synonyms:
   debate, discuss, dispute, argue

2. mootadjective

   Synonyms:
   debatable, disputable, disputed, unsettled, in question

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1. mootadjective

   Synonyms:
   undecided, unsettled, debatable

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1. List of paraphrases for "moot":

   theoretical, contest, debatable, questionable, non-applicable, competition, irrelevant

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How to use moot in a sentence?

1. Ben Cotton:

   All of this, however, may be a moot point because subsequently I've been able to recover all of the deleted files and I have access to that data.

2. Steve Vladeck:

   The Supreme Court's procedural order not only wipes away two lower court rulings, but it also orders dismissal of the entire dispute -- leaving for some other time resolution of the many questions Trump's conduct raised about The Emoluments Clause, ordinarily, The Supreme Court pursues such a step only when the prevailing party moots a case while the appeal is pending -- as opposed to here, where the disputes became moot because Trump's term ended.

3. Marion Barber II:

   He was real specific in his will that he didn’t want that, we are going to respect that. But in the condition his body was in, according to the examiner, that probably would have been a moot point because of the decomposition.

4. Marco Caceres:

   We know the Russians build excellent engines, but we don’t know how the quality control is, to a certain extent, it’s a moot point because NASA doesn’t have a lot of choices.

5. Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court:

   When a defendant dies irrespective of cause, while a direct appeal as of right challenging his conviction is pending, the proper course is to dismiss the appeal as moot.