adjective

moot

MOOT/muːt/

Having no practical importance or effect.

Choosing a key is moot when people can walk around the gate.

Which key opens the gate is moot: two adults compare keys at a locked garden gate, although the gate stands alone without a fence and another person walks freely around it.

Etymology

An “assembly” became associated with law students discussing hypothetical cases. That practice connects the senses “open to debate” and “of little practical importance”: a question can be discussed without deciding a real case.

In context

silver fox50:42

I'm never personally having kids. So, this whole conversation of passing the last names down to the kids is moot in my circumstance.

biblical submission & purity culture (a study of the religious influencer)

More examples

Whether we drive or walk is moot; the office is closed.
The new policy renders the old dispute moot.
Now that admission is free, the question of discounts is moot.

Forms

moot

Similar words

irrelevant: Irrelevant means unrelated to the issue, not necessarily without consequences.
academic: Academic emphasizes theoretical interest rather than any practical consequence.