moot point

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An issue that is subject to, or open for, discussion or debate, to which no satisfactory answer is found; originally, one to be definitively determined by an assembly of the people.
    — In this age of moot points—some mooter than others, others possibly a shade less moot than some—perhaps the mootest point of any is, What is happening to the drama now that July 1st is behind us? This surely is a point of which the mootness cannot escape the most ivory-domed.
  2. An issue hardly worth debating because it is no longer practically applicable.
    — Until we rebuild downtown, whether we build more parking spaces is a moot point.

词形变化

moot points plural

词汇关系

相关词
non-issue

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English moot
English point
English moot point
From moot (“assembly”) + point.
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