laputan
4 synonyms for laputan, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Adj — Wildly unrealistic, especially in a scientific or philosophical idea.
Synonyms
Less common
Still standard English, but they carry more weight.
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
Etymology
From Laputa + -an, after Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726).
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