laputan

2 definitions found

laputan - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Laputan \La*pu"tan\, 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. "Laputan ideas." --G. Eliot.
     [1913 Webster]

laputan - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Laputan
      adj 1: relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of
             Laputa or its people
      2: not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories
         about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for
         getting rich" [syn: airy, impractical, visionary,
         Laputan, windy]