moot
adjective (LEGAL CASE) /muːt/ mainly US legalDefinition
› having no practical use or meaning: The district attorney said if his conviction was upheld on appeal, the state prosecution would become moot.Irrelevant
(Definition of moot adjective (LEGAL CASE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a fifth/third wheel idiom
- be neither here nor there idiom
- be no object idiom
- beside preposition
- enter into sth phrasal verb
- extraneous adjective
- immaterial adjective
- irrelevance noun
- irrelevant adjective
- make no odds idiom
- nothing pronoun
- out of the picture idiom
- point noun (IDEA EXPRESSED)
- prejudice noun
- red herring noun
- unconnected adjective
- unrelated adjective
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