moot

Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.

[…] :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: […]

[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 be a fish.

Being an exercise of thought; academic.

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 presented by biblical translation, a dangerous excess of beauty is not one of them.

A moot court.

The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots.

A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.

A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting two weeks.

A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.

An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).

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 was unopposed by competitors or stockholders, should not be taken as an indication that others will swiftly pass its scrutiny.

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 deal with the UK.

To discuss or debate.

a problem which hardly has been mentioned, far less mooted, in this country

First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men, containing some doubtful controversy.

To make or declare irrelevant.

To argue or plead in a supposed case.

There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting.

To talk or speak.

In that mater now I will mute no moir.