Usually means: Subject to debate, no practical relevance.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. moot: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. moot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. moot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. moot: Collins English Dictionary
  5. moot: Vocabulary.com
  6. Moot, moot: Wordnik
  7. moot: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. moot: Wiktionary
  9. moot: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. moot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. moot: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. moot: Dictionary.com
  13. moot: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. moot: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Moot (4chan), Moot (law), Moot, The Moot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Moot: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. moot: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. moot: Rhymezone
  19. moot, moot (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. moot: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. moot: Free Dictionary
  22. moot: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. moot: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Moot: The Word Detective
  25. moot: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. moot: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. moot: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. Moot (legal training), moot: Legal dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. moot: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. moot: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. moot: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. moot: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See mooted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (current in UK, rare in the US) Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
adjective:  (Canada, US, chiefly law) Being an exercise of thought; academic.
adjective:  (Canada, US) Having no practical consequence or relevance.
noun:  A moot court.
noun:  A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.
noun:  (scouting) A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks.
noun:  (paganism) A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
noun:  (historical) An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).
noun:  (shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins.
verb:  To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.
verb:  To discuss or debate.
verb:  (US) To make or declare irrelevant.
verb:  To argue or plead in a supposed case.
verb:  (regional, obsolete) To talk or speak.
verb:  (Scotland, Northern England) To say, utter, also insinuate.
noun:  (Scotland, Northern England) A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
noun:  (Scotland, Northern England, rustic) Talk.
noun:  (Australia) Vagina.
noun:  (West Country) The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.
verb:  (West Country) To take root and begin to grow.
verb:  (West Country) To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with a snout.
noun:  (Internet slang, endearing) A mutual follower on a social media platform.

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