Synonyms for moot
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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. 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.

3. Molly Spearman:

   I had told superintendents that we were going to stick to our order until the end of the year but it just became impossible when the conflicting order came out and parents were able to opt out. It was moot, really, after that.

4. Steve Vladeck:

   By vacating the decision below and ordering the lower court to dismiss the suit as being moot, the Justices avoided either tacitly endorsing or rejecting the lower court's analysis, leaving no federal precedent to govern the question of whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was allowed to extend the deadline for receipt of mail-in ballots last fall.

5. 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.