30 September, 2014

moot

adjective

1. 1.

   subject to debate, dispute, or uncertainty.

   "whether the temperature rise was mainly due to the greenhouse effect was a moot point"

   synonyms:

   debatable, open to debate, open to discussion, arguable, questionable,at issue, open to question

verb

1. 1.

   raise (a question or topic) for discussion; suggest (an idea or possibility).

   "the scheme was first mooted last October"

   synonyms:

   raise, bring up, broach, mention, put forward, introduce, advance

noun

1. 1.

   historical

   an assembly held for debate, especially in Anglo-Saxon and medieval times.
2. 2.

   LAW

   a mock judicial proceeding set up to examine a hypothetical case as an academic exercise.

   "the object of a moot is to provide practice in developing an argument"