Laputan
la·pu·tan
adjective
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”
Origin
From Laputa + -an, after Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726).
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