Definition of laputan Laputan
We found 5 definitions of laputan from 4 different sources.
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What does laputan mean?
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| laputan - relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Laputa or its people | ||
| laputan - not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich" | ||
| airy, impractical, visionary, Laputan, windy | ||
| utopian characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection; "the dim utopian future"; "utopian idealists"; "recognized the utopian nature of his hopes" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- laputan (Adjective)
fanciful; preposterous; absurd in science or philosophy.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary π
- laputan (a.)
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.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary π
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laputan
la-pΕ«β²tan, adj. pertaining to Laputa, a flying island described in Swift's Gulliver's Travels as inhabited by all sorts of ridiculous projectors: absurd: chimerical
