Meanings (ES + gloss)
debatible • discutible
Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
[T]he uncertain, unsettled condition of this science of Cetology is in the very vestibule attested by the fact, that in some quarters it still remains a moot point whether a whale…
[…] :indeed we were obligd to hawl off rather in a hurry for the wind freshning a little we found ourselves in a bay which it was a moot point whether or not we could get out of: […
baldío • fútil • inútil • irrelevante • menudo • nimio • por gusto • por las [puras] huevas • por las puras • por las puras brevas • vano • ínfimo
Having no practical consequence or relevance.
That point may make for a good discussion, but it is moot.
The question [whether certain poetry was present in the original Hebrew Psalms] in our own time is moot, since various considerations have made it certain that, of all the hazards…
📚 verb • entry_id 10565
moot
Meanings (ES + gloss)
plantear • proponer • sugerir
To bring up as a subject for debate.
A number of other mergers of U.S. railroads are mooted, but the I.C.C. [Interstate Commerce Commission] has made it clear that its assent to the N.& W.-Virginian proposal, which wa…
The general idea was first mooted a couple of years ago by Philip Hammond, then Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer, as a means of encouraging the EU to strike a friendly Brexit…