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Definition of Laputan
1. Adjective. Relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Laputa or its people.
2. Adjective. Not practical or realizable; speculative. "Visionary schemes for getting rich"
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
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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