Definition of Laputan

1. Adjective. Relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Laputa or its people.

Partainyms: Laputa
Derivative terms: Laputa

2. Adjective. Not practical or realizable; speculative. "Visionary schemes for getting rich"
Exact synonyms: Airy, Impractical, Visionary, Windy
Similar to: Utopian
Derivative terms: Impracticality, Laputa, Vision, Visionary

Definition of Laputan

1. 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.

Definition of Laputan

1. Adjective. fanciful; preposterous; absurd in science or philosophy ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Laputan

1. 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." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Laputan

lapsus calami
lapsus digiti
lapsus digitorum
lapsus linguae
lapsus linguæ
lapsus muris
lapsus plumae
lapsus plumæ
laptop
laptop computer
laptop computers
laptopless
laptoplike
laptops
laptronica
laputan (current term)
lapward
lapwing
lapwings
lapwork
lapworks
laquay
laquays
laquearian
laqueary
lar
lar gibbon
laramie group
larb
larbish

Literary usage of Laputan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects by John Frederick William Herschel (1871)
"Not more so at least than some of his other laputan speculations ; such as calcining ice into gunpowder : or moving vast locomotive masses by magnetism, ..."

2. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1884)
"... as was indeed the case with that of the laputan Academy, for our amusing author continues : " But the success hath not hitherto been answerable, ..."

3. My Dear Wells by Henry Arthur Jones (1921)
"put aside less urgent business and constitute myself your flapper—in the laputan sense. I had just come to this decision, when I received a copy of the ..."

4. Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1893)
"Orlando, the hero of the poem, is identical with Roland, one of Charlemagne's paladins, Book XIV., 68. P. 79,1.12. laputan flapper. The laputan ..."

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