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adjective: mute
1.
refraining from speech or temporarily speechless.
"Irene, the talkative one, was now mute"
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moot
/mo͞ot/

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adjective: moot
  1. 1.
    subject to debate, dispute, or uncertainty.
    "whether the temperature rise was mainly due to the greenhouse effect was a moot point"
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    open to debate
    open to discussion
    arguable
    questionable
    at issue
    open to question
    open
    doubtful
    open to doubt
    disputable
    contestable
    controvertible
    problematic
    problematical
    controversial
    contentious
    vexed
    disputed
    unresolved
    unsettled
    up in the air
    undecided
    yet to be decided
    undetermined
    unconcluded
  2. 2.
    having little or no practical relevance, typically because the subject is too uncertain to allow a decision.
    "the whole matter is becoming increasingly moot"
verb
verb: moot; 3rd person present: moots; past tense: mooted; past participle: mooted; gerund or present participle: mooting
  1. raise (a question or topic) for discussion; suggest (an idea or possibility).
    "Sylvia needed a vacation, and a trip to Ireland had been mooted"
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noun
noun: moot; plural noun: moots
  1. 1.
    historical
    an assembly held for debate, especially in Anglo-Saxon and medieval times.
    • a regular gathering of people having a common interest.
  2. 2.
    Law
    a mock trial set up to examine a hypothetical case as an academic exercise.
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Old English mōt ‘assembly or meeting’ and mōtian ‘to converse’, of Germanic origin; related to meet1. The adjective (originally an attributive noun use: see moot court) dates from the mid 16th century; the current verb sense dates from the mid 17th century.
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adjective. open to discussion or debate; debatable; doubtful: Whether that was the cause of their troubles is a moot point. of little or no practical value, meaning, or relevance; purely academic: In practical terms, the issue of her application is moot because the deadline has p