Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
No pronunciation record was provided for this word.
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
An issue hardly worth debating because it is no longer practically applicable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Until we rebuild downtown, whether we build more parking spaces is a moot point.
- Who really owned that horse is a moot point now that it has run away.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
From moot (“assembly”) + point.
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
-
Czech:
předmět diskuse
— issue that is open for debate
-
Danish:
stridspunkt
— issue that is open for debate
-
Danish:
åbent spørgsmål
— issue that is open for debate
-
Finnish:
tahtokysymys
— issue that is open for debate
-
Finnish:
kiistanalainen kysymys
— issue that is open for debate
-
Finnish:
päätettävä asia
— issue that is open for debate
-
French:
contentieux
— issue that is open for debate
-
German:
Streitpunkt
— issue that is open for debate
-
German:
offene Frage
— issue that is open for debate
-
German:
fragliche Sache
— issue that is open for debate
-
Greek:
αμφιλεγόμενο θέμα
(amfilegómeno théma)
— issue that is open for debate
-
Polish:
kwestia do dyskusji
— issue that is open for debate
-
Polish:
kwestia dyskusyjna
— issue that is open for debate
-
Romanian:
punct de discuție
— issue that is open for debate
-
Russian:
спо́рный вопро́с
(spórnyj voprós)
— issue that is open for debate
-
Spanish:
punto de contención
— issue that is open for debate
-
Ukrainian:
спі́рне пита́ння
(spírne pytánnja)
— issue that is open for debate
-
Danish:
teoretisk spørgsmål
— issue that has been rendered irrelevant
-
Danish:
akademisk spørgsmål
— issue that has been rendered irrelevant
-
Finnish:
sivuseikka
— issue that has been rendered irrelevant
-
Finnish:
epäolennainen kysymys
— issue that has been rendered irrelevant
-
Finnish:
lillukanvarsi
— issue that has been rendered irrelevant
-
German:
akademische Frage
— issue that has been rendered irrelevant
-
Italian:
questione di lana caprina
— issue that has been rendered irrelevant
-
Polish:
kwestia czysto akademicka
— issue that has been rendered irrelevant
-
Spanish:
por gusto
— issue that has been rendered irrelevant
-
Spanish:
por las puras
— issue that has been rendered irrelevant
-
Spanish:
por las [puras] huevas
— issue that has been rendered irrelevant
-
Spanish:
por las puras brevas
— issue that has been rendered irrelevant
-
Spanish:
futilidad
— issue that has been rendered irrelevant
-
Spanish:
inutilidad
— issue that has been rendered irrelevant
-
Spanish:
punto muerto
— issue that has been rendered irrelevant
-
Spanish:
irrelevancia
— issue that has been rendered irrelevant
