laputan

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Definition of laputan in English English dictionary

Hence, fanciful; preposterous; absurd in science or philosophy

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

Of or pertaining to Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Gulliver's Travels as the home of chimerical philosophers

{s} absurd, imaginary, ridiculously unreal (named after the island of Laputa in the book "Gulliver's Travels")