Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

MOOTED

Definition: MOOTED

MOOTED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Moot

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "MOOTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1827. (references)


Synonyms within Context: MOOTED

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Supposition

Adjective: supposing; Verb: given, mooted, postulatory; assumed; Verb: supposititious, suppositive, suppositious; gratuitous, speculative, conjectural, hypothetical, theoretical, academic, supposable, presumptive, putative; suppositional.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Top     

Crosswords: MOOTED

English words defined with "MOOTED": Moot case, Mootable, Mooter. (references)
Specialty definitions using "MOOTED": Moots. (references)

Top     

Non-Fiction Usage: MOOTED

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Sudan

In July 2000, the Libyan/Egyptian Joint Initiative on the Sudan was mooted, calling for the establishment of an interim government, powersharing, constitutional reform, and new elections. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Top     

Usage Frequency: MOOTED

"MOOTED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 72.65% of the time. "MOOTED" is used about 117 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)72.65%8535,870
Lexical Verb (past tense)17.95%2176,261
Adjective (general or positive)9.4%11106,044
                    Total100.00%117N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Top     

Expression: MOOTED

Expression using "MOOTED": the question was mooted. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Modern Translation: MOOTED

Language Translations for "MOOTED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

die frage wurde aufgeworfen (the question was mooted). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ootedmay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Misspellings: MOOTED

Misspellings

"MOOTED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mabote, Maoten, meote, Modotti, moite, moited, Momote, mooter, Moroti, motd, moted, Motej, moulted, Moutet, Mozote, mutoid, omote. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top     

Anagrams: MOOTED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-m-o-o-t"

-1 letter: mooed.

-2 letters: demo, dome, doom, dote, mode, mood, moot, mote, toed, tome, toom.

-3 letters: doe, dom, dot, med, met, mod, moo, mot, ode, oot, ted, tod, toe, tom, too.

-4 letters: de, do, ed, em, et, me, mo, od, oe, om, to.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-m-o-o-t"
 

+1 letter: motored, outmode.

 

+2 letters: bottomed, demotion, dolomite, doomster, hoteldom, moderato, moodiest, motioned, odometer, odometry, outmoded, outmodes, outmoved, promoted, smoothed, sodomite, stomodea.

 

+3 letters: astrodome, comforted, comported, composted, demotions, dolomites, doomsters, godmother, hoteldoms, ideomotor, locomoted, meteoroid, moderator, moderatos, monitored, motorcade, motorised, motorized, odometers, outsmoked, protoderm, sodomites, stomodaea, stomodeal, stomodeum.

 

+4 letters: astrodomes, besmoothed, complotted, composited, demolition, dictyosome, dolomitize, godmothers, homeported, meteoroids, moderation, moderators, motherhood, motorbiked, motorcaded, motorcades, odometries, outbloomed, outhomered, outhumored, overemoted, overmodest, postformed, postmodern, protoderms, resmoothed, smoothened, stomodaeal, stomodaeum, stomodeums, unsmoothed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: MOOTED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 4F 4F 54 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    ---    ---    -    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01001111 01001111 01010100 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#79 &#79 &#84 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 004F 004F 0054 0045 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

474949543938

Top     



INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.