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Laputan

la·pu·tan

UK/ləˈpjuːtən/ uncommon

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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