moot

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   open to debate or of no practical relevance; to raise for discussion

   Whether he would have won is now a moot point.

From Old English mōt ('meeting, assembly, court'), from Proto-Germanic *mōtą ('encounter, meeting'); the adjectival sense 'debatable' arose from the practice of arguing hypothetical cases at a 'moot'.

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