2013年1月3日 · A "moot" point is debatable and open for discussion but may not come to any satisfactory conclusion or whose conclusion may be meaningless. Some examples from Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary: The court ruled that the issue is now moot because the people involved in the dispute have died. I think they were wrong, but the point is moot.

2021年3月31日 · Consequently, a "moot question" is one that is arguable or open to debate. But in the mid-1800s, people also began to look at the hypothetical side of "moot" as its essential meaning, and they started to use the word to mean “of no significance or relevance.” Thus a "moot point", however debatable, is one that has no practical value.

2015年5月20日 · Granted, the distinction between system and package manager maintained assets is moot on Linux distros, as they're all updated from apt-get, yum and so on. People have commented on my allegedly incorrect use of moot, claiming that the distinction itself can't be moot, only the point of the distinction. I've already read about moot points.

2016年5月23日 · Phrase "rendered moot," idiom: At some point, this whole debate may be rendered moot. (ODO, moot, adj, 2 - open 'More example sentences') Phrase "rendered mute," literal/ metaphorical. Some are deprived of the ability to reason and some made blind and others rendered mute. When Jesus had cast out the demon, the mute man spoke. The crowd was ...

2021年9月18日 · “Moot point” is the most common noun-phrase using the adjective “moot”: moot (adj.) often discussed or argued about but having no definite answer. Unless you are using “moot point”, you generally describe something as being moot rather than applying the adjective to the noun: No: It is a mostly moot argument; Yes: The argument is ...

Later also gen.: open to argument, debatable; uncertain, doubtful; unable to be firmly resolved. Frequently in moot case, moot point. 1956 G. Durrell Drunken Forest x. 199 Whether he could have bitten us successfully..was rather a moot point, but it was not the sort of experiment I …

2015年5月30日 · Of course a lot of people misunderstand the primary meaning of the adjective "moot"-- "open to question" or "argued about but not possible to prove" -- using the word only in the expression "moot point", which rightly or wrongly is often taken to mean "not worth debating". As a result the word is apt to cause confusion, even when properly used.

Note, while many other suggestions give a choice that is unimportant due to equality of options or them leading to one outcome, or lack of information on outcome, "moot" may mean totally irrelevant, for example you choose between two options, of which both are then discarded and a third one picked without you having any say in it, or you are given a choice while the outcome …

2017年6月29日 · "Moot", as in a moot point or moot question. Moot has taken on a negative connotation, but Merriam-Webster defines moot as in two different senses: Moot: 1a: open to question : DEBATABLE. 1b: subjected to discussion : DISPUTED. 2: deprived of practical significance : made abstract or purely academic

2017年11月30日 · From the comments, @DanBron suggested the word moot. This is the word I decided to use, as it provided the meaning I was looking for: subject to debate, dispute, or uncertainty, and typically not admitting of a final decision. "whether the temperature rise was mainly due to the greenhouse effect was a moot point"