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Moot point
noun
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Noun
- 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.
"In this age of moot points—some mooter than others, others possibly a shade less moot than some—perhaps the mootest point of any is, What is happening to the drama now that July 1st is behind us? This surely is a point of which the mootness cannot escape the most ivory-domed."
- 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."
Etymology
From moot (“assembly”) + point.
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