mootness
No longer matters
Mootness is the quality of being moot—no longer requiring a decision because circumstances have changed.
In law, a case becomes moot when the controversy it addresses has been resolved or the outcome can no longer affect the parties: The court dismissed the appeal on grounds of mootness.
Outside legal contexts, mootness suggests irrelevance or pointlessness: The mootness of the debate became clear once the deadline passed.
Based on conjecture
- theoreticalBased on hypothesis, untested
- abstractCondensed version of text
- conjecturalBased on incomplete evidence
- notionalConceptual, not concrete
suppositional · contingent · conditional · philosophical · debatable · arguable · disputable · contestable
Without worth or effect
- inconsequentialLacking significance or impact
- immaterialLacking physical form; unimportant
- insignificantLacking importance or consequence
- pointlessLacking any purpose
meaningless · inapplicable · inoperative · void · obsolete · superseded · nullified · expired
Removal from position
- standingPosition, physical or social
- justiciabilitySuitability for court decision
- ripenessReady to eat state
- controversyProlonged public disagreement
injunction · declaratory · remedy · litigation · appeal · jurisdiction · adjudication · case
Reasoned case or dispute
- contentionAssertion or rivalry
- deliberationCareful weighing of choices
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
- dialecticLogical argument through opposition
rebuttal · resolution · disputation · proposition · counterargument · discourse · reasoning · point
speculative
Based on conjecture
- theoreticalBased on hypothesis, untested
- abstractCondensed version of text
- conjecturalBased on incomplete evidence
notional · suppositional · contingent · conditional · philosophical · debatable · arguable · disputable · contestable · unresolved
nugatory
Without worth or effect
- inconsequentialLacking significance or impact
- immaterialLacking physical form; unimportant
- insignificantLacking importance or consequence
pointless · meaningless · inapplicable · inoperative · void · obsolete · superseded · nullified · expired · defunct
dismissal
Removal from position
- standingPosition, physical or social
- justiciabilitySuitability for court decision
- ripenessReady to eat state
controversy · injunction · declaratory · remedy · litigation · appeal · jurisdiction · adjudication · case · ruling
argument
Reasoned case or dispute
- contentionAssertion or rivalry
- deliberationCareful weighing of choices
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
dialectic · rebuttal · resolution · disputation · proposition · counterargument · discourse · reasoning · point · objection
mootnessrelevance
State of mattering here
significance · materiality · consequentiality · pertinence · practical