moot point

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.
  2. An issue hardly worth debating because it is no longer practically applicable.

Word forms

moot point moot points

Etymology

From moot (“assembly”) + point.

Related words

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