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# moot

«moot» in Mova's school dictionary: **a question that people still argue about and have not…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (a moot point; no comparative); verb (moot, moots, mooted, mooting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A moot point is a question that people still argue about and have not settled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moot/#m1)

2) (formal) To moot an idea is to raise it for discussion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moot/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in the notes to tales, «a moot point» is a question scholars still dispute; in formal talk, «to moot» means to suggest an idea for others to think about

### examples

- Whether the wolf was really a dog is a moot point. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moot/#x1)
- The teacher mooted a trip to the zoo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moot/#x2)
- Nobody has settled the moot question of who first wrote the tale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moot/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; a moot point is an unsettled question, not a count

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «moot» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moot/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.