eristic vs moot

eristic

adj
  • Provoking strife, controversy or discord. 

noun
  • One who makes specious arguments; one who is disputatious. 

  • A type of dialogue or argument where the participants do not have any reasonable goal. The aim is to argue for the sake of conflict, and often to see who can yell the loudest. 

moot

adj
  • Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve. 

  • Being an exercise of thought; academic. 

  • Having no practical consequence or relevance. 

verb
  • To argue or plead in a supposed case. 

  • To say, utter, also insinuate. 

  • To take root and begin to grow. 

  • To make or declare irrelevant. 

  • To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with a snout. 

  • To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose. 

  • To discuss or debate. 

noun
  • A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house. 

  • A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors. 

  • A mutual follower on a social media platform. 

  • Vagina. 

  • A moot court. 

  • A ring for gauging wooden pins. 

  • The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree. 

  • An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality). 

  • A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks. 

  • 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. 

  • Talk. 

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