Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to moot
Participle: mooted
Gerund: mooting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | moot |
| you | moot |
| he;she;it | moots |
| we | moot |
| you | moot |
| they | moot |
Perfect
| I | have mooted |
| you | have mooted |
| he;she;it | has mooted |
| we | have mooted |
| you | have mooted |
| they | have mooted |
Past
| I | mooted |
| you | mooted |
| he;she;it | mooted |
| we | mooted |
| you | mooted |
| they | mooted |
Pluperfect
| I | had mooted |
| you | had mooted |
| he;she;it | had mooted |
| we | had mooted |
| you | had mooted |
| they | had mooted |
Future
| I | will moot |
| you | will moot |
| he;she;it | will moot |
| we | will moot |
| you | will moot |
| they | will moot |
Future Perfect
| I | will have mooted |
| you | will have mooted |
| he;she;it | will have mooted |
| we | will have mooted |
| you | will have mooted |
| they | will have mooted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | moot |
| you | moot |
| he;she;it | moot |
| we | moot |
| you | moot |
| they | moot |
Perfect
| I | have mooted |
| you | have mooted |
| he;she;it | have mooted |
| we | have mooted |
| you | have mooted |
| they | have mooted |
Imperfect
| I | mooted |
| you | mooted |
| he;she;it | mooted |
| we | mooted |
| you | mooted |
| they | mooted |
Pluperfect
| I | had mooted |
| you | had mooted |
| he;she;it | had mooted |
| we | had mooted |
| you | had mooted |
| they | had mooted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would moot |
| you | would moot |
| he;she;it | would moot |
| we | would moot |
| you | would moot |
| they | would moot |
Perfect
| I | would have mooted |
| you | would have mooted |
| he;she;it | would have mooted |
| we | would have mooted |
| you | would have mooted |
| they | would have mooted |
Imperative
| you | moot |
| we | Let's moot |
| you | moot |
Verbs conjugated like 'moot'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'moot'
boot,
foot,
hoot,
loot,
moat,
molt,
moo,
moon,
moor,
mot,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English moten (“to speak, talk, converse, discuss”), from Old English mōtian (“to speak, converse, discuss”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet, encounter”), a suffixed derivative of *mōtą (“meeting”). Related to etymology 1. See also mutter (which is a frequentative of moot). See: Middle English '
moten', Proto-Germanic '
*mōtijaną'.
Verbs referencing "moot"
Danish
møde.
Sample Sentences
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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. [1960 January, “Talking of Trains: N.& W.-Virginian merger”, in Trains Illustrated, page 9:]
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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. [2019 December 17, Howard Davies, “Will the UK really turn into 'Singapore-on-Thames' after Brexit?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
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a problem which hardly has been mentioned, far less mooted, in this country [a. 1857, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1859–1860, →OCLC:]
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First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men, containing some doubtful controversy. [1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:]
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An elevated cycleway connecting Los Angeles and Pasadena was mooted as early as 1896 … [2015 March 4, Peter Shadbolt, “Amazing Cycle Super Highways”, in CNN, retrieved 11 Mar 2015:]
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There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting. [1641, Ben Jonson, Timber:]
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In that mater now I will mute no moir. [1535, William Stewart, The Buik of the Croniclis of Scotland:]