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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Laputa or its people;

2. not practical or realizable; speculative;
- Example: "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"
- Example: "visionary schemes for getting rich"
[syn: airy, impractical, visionary, Laputan, windy]


The 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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]