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moot (adj.)

has three Standard meanings:

 "discussable, debatable"; "under discussion, being disputed"; and "without practical significance, academic." Thus a moot question may be open to discussion, in the process of being discussed, or not worth discussing at all, depending on the sense dictated by context.

 

Kenneth G. Wilson (1923-). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.

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