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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.

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  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.
  2. adj. relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Laputa or its people
  3. adj. not practical or realizable; speculative
  4. 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.
  5. Of or pertaining to Laputa, an imaginary flying islanddescribed in Gulliver's Travels as the home of chimericalphilosophers. Hence, fanciful; preposterous; absurd in science orphilosophy. "Laputan ideas." G. Eliot.
  6. a. relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Laputa or its people