moot point
Meanings
noun
- 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.
- An issue hardly worth debating because it is no longer practically applicable.
Word forms
Etymology
From moot (“assembly”) + point.
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