moot
US: /ˈmut/
UK: /mˈuːt/
UK: /mˈuːt/
English Vietnamese dictionary
moot /mu:t/
- danh từ
- (pháp lý) sự thảo luận, sự tranh luận (của sinh viên luật về một vụ án giả định để thực tập)
- (sử học) cuộc hội nghị, cuộc hội họp
- tính từ
- có thể bàn, có thể tranh luận
- a moot point (question): một điểm (vấn đề) có thể bàn
- có thể bàn, có thể tranh luận
- ngoại động từ
- nêu lên để bàn (vấn đề)
Advanced English dictionary
adjective, verb
+ adjective (AmE) unlikely to happen and therefore not worth considering: He argued that the issue had become moot since the board had changed its policy.
Idioms: a moot point / question (BrE, AmE) a matter about which there may be disagreement or uncertainty: Whether this should be enforced by law or not is a moot point.
+ verb [VN] [usually passive] (formal) to suggest an idea for people to discuss
Synonym: PROPOSE, PUT FORWARD
The plan was first mooted at last week's meeting.
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 debatable, arguable, undecided, undetermined, controversial, doubtful, disputable, open to debate, at issue, indefinite, problematic(al), questionable, open (to question or to discussion), confutable, confuted, contestable, contested, unsettled, unresolved, up in the air, unconcluded:
Whether he would be found innocent was still a moot point.
v.
2 bring up or forward, introduce, broach, put forward, proffer, posit, propound, advance, submit, suggest:
It has been mooted that she was with the victim just before the murder.
