moot point

Idioms  

1. A debatable question, an issue open to argument; also, an irrelevant question, a matter of no importance. For example, Whether Shakespeare actually wrote the poem remains a moot point among critics, or It's a moot point whether the chicken or the egg came first. This term originated in British law where it described a point for discussion in a moot, or assembly, of law students. By the early 1700s it was being used more loosely in the present sense.

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Example Sentences

All this may be a moot point after Nvidia day on Wednesday.

From Barron's • Nov. 18, 2025

The next step is for the country’s High Constitutional Court to approve the vote, but the military’s move may have made it a moot point.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

Whether that was achieved on day one is a moot point but Woods' follow-up that this is "not traditional golf" was bang on the mark.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2025

If you’re not working, though, that’s a moot point.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2024

It was a moot point, regardless: Kasischke and Groom were in such bad shape that going anywhere was out of the question for the time being.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer