- laputan
- la·pu·tan
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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] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Laputan — noun Date: 1726 an inhabitant of a flying island in Swift s Gulliver s Travels characterized by a neglect of useful occupations and a devotion to visionary projects • Laputan adjective … New Collegiate Dictionary
Laputan — La·pu·tan (lə pyo͞otʹn) adj. Absurdly impractical or visionary, especially to the neglect of more useful activity. [After the flying island of Laputa in Gulliver s Travels by Jonathan Swift, where absurd projects are pursued and useful pursuits … Universalium
laputan — adj. absurd, imaginary, ridiculously unreal (named after the island of Laputa in the book Gulliver s Travels ) … English contemporary dictionary
Laputan — a. pertaining to Laputa, island of philosophers in Swift s Gulliver s Travels; absurd; fantastic … Dictionary of difficult words
Laputan — adjective 1. relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Laputa or its people • Pertains to noun: ↑Laputa • Derivationally related forms: ↑Laputa 2. not practical or realizable; speculative airy theories about socioeconomic… … Useful english dictionary
Laputa — Laputan, adj., n. /leuh pyooh teuh/, n. an imaginary flying island in Swift s Gulliver s Travels, the inhabitants of which engaged in a variety of ridiculous projects and pseudoscientific experiments. * * * … Universalium
Laputa — noun a land imagined by Jonathan Swift where impractical projects were pursued and practical projects neglected • Derivationally related forms: ↑Laputan • Hypernyms: ↑imaginary place, ↑mythical place, ↑fictitious place * * * Laputan, adj., n … Useful english dictionary
Deus Ex — This article is about the 2000 video game. For the series, see Deus Ex (series). For other uses, see Deus ex machina (disambiguation). Deus Ex Developer(s) Ion Storm Inc … Wikipedia
Laputa — is a fictional place from the book Gulliver s Travels by Jonathan Swift.Laputa is a fictional flying island or rock with an adamantine base, that can be maneuvered by its inhabitants in any direction using magnetic levitation. The population of… … Wikipedia
