Moot vs Obvious - What's the difference?
moot | obvious |
Subject to discussion (originally at a ); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
* 1770 , (Joseph Banks), The (published 1962):
* 1851 , (Herman Melville), :
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 477:
(North America, chiefly, legal) Being an exercise of thought; academic.
(North America) Having no practical impact or relevance.
* 2007 , Paul Mankowski, "
A moot court.
* Sir T. Elyot
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.
(Scouting) A gathering of Rovers (18–26 year-old Scouts), usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks.
(paganism) A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
(historical) An assembly (usually for decision making in a locality).
(shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins.
To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.
To discuss or debate.
* Sir W. Hamilton
* Sir T. Elyot
(US) To make or declare irrelevant.
To argue or plead in a supposed case.
* Ben Jonson
Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
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As a noun moot
is size, measure.As an adjective obvious is
easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.moot
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) moot, mot, . Related to (l).Adjective
(en adjective)- [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.
- The extent to which these Parisian radicals ‘represented’ the French people as a whole was very moot .
- Walter Crane and Lewis F. Day (1903) Moot Points : Friendly Disputes on Art and Industry Between Walter Crane and Lewis F. Day
- That point may make for a good discussion, but it is moot .
The Languages of Biblical Translation", Adoremus Bulletin , Vol. 13, No. 4,
- 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.
Synonyms
* (without relevance) irrelevant, obsolete (if it was previously relevant)Derived terms
* moot point * moot courtNoun
(en noun)- The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots .
Derived terms
* folkmoot * gemootVerb
(en verb)- a problem which hardly has been mentioned, much less mooted , in this country
- First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men, containing some doubtful controversy.
- There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting.
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*Etymology 2
Origin unknown.References
*obvious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Down towns, passage=It is not obvious , to economists anyway, that cities should exist at all. Crowds of people mean congestion and costly land and labour. But there are also well-known advantages to bunching up. When transport costs are sufficiently high a firm can spend more money shipping goods to clusters of consumers than it saves on cheap land and labour.}}