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Laputan

adj
/ləˈpjuːtən/

Etymology

From Laputa + -an, after Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726).

Definitions

  1. Fanciful

    Fanciful; preposterous; absurd in philosophy or science.

    • He could not, they observed, want all his various knowledge and Laputan ideas for his periodical writing which brought him most of his bread, and he would do well to use his talents in getting a speciality that would fit him for a post.

  2. A native or inhabitant of the fictional island of Laputa.

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