laputan

adjective

  1. 1

    not practical or realizable; speculative

    airy theories about socioeconomic improvement

    visionary schemes for getting rich

  2. 2

    relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Laputa or its people

general

  1. 1

    Of or pertaining to Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Gulliver's Travels as the home of chimerical philosophers. Hence, fanciful; preposterous; absurd in science or philosophy. "Laputan ideas." G. Eliot.

    airy theories about socioeconomic improvement

    visionary schemes for getting rich

Synonyms

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