Moot point

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 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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