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Laputan (adj) means Wildly unrealistic, especially in a scientific or philosophical idea.

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Wildly unrealistic, especially in a scientific or philosophical idea.
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Etymology

From Laputa + -an, after Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726).

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"laputan" (adj) means wildly unrealistic, especially in a scientific or philosophical idea.
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Other words for "laputan" include visionary, impractical, airy, windy.

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