Past tense of moot
regular verb
The past tense of moot is mooted. The past participle is also mooted.
Forms of moot
| Base form (V1) | moot /muːt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | mooted |
| Past participle (V3) | mooted |
| Present participle | mooting |
| Third person singular | moots |
Mooted in a sentence
- 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
- The plant is being built near Lyuban, the town that the EU alleges was mooted to be named in his honour.2021 June 27, Robert Mendick, “Russian oligarch with UK property empire escapes sanctions despite links to Belarus dictator”, in The…. From the entry Lyuban
- He found Andy morosely replacing some broken strands in his cinch, and he went straight at the mooted question.1915, B. M. Bower, The Flying U's Last Stand. From the entry cinch
- Returning just the six miles from Bere Alston to Tavistock has been mooted, but again it seems to be going nowhere very slowly.2025 November 12, 'Mystery Shopper', “Is Devon the cream of the crop?”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 47. From the entry cry out
- The NRC is a hugely controversial policy mooted last year in Assam, a region of India which shares a porous border with Bangladesh.2019 April 12, James Griffiths and Manveena Suri, “Outrage over BJP promise to ‘remove every single infiltrator’ from India”, in CNN. From the entry NRC
Meaning of moot
- adjective Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
- adjective Being an exercise of thought; academic.
- adjective Having no practical consequence or relevance.
Questions about the past tense of moot
- What is the past tense of moot?
- The past tense of moot is mooted.
- What is the past participle of moot?
- The past participle of moot is mooted.
- Is moot a regular or irregular verb?
- Moot is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: moot (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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