Laputan

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]