Usually means: Impractical, theoretical, from Swift's satire.
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  1. Laputan: Merriam-Webster
  2. Laputan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. Laputan: Vocabulary.com
  4. Laputan: Wordnik
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  6. Laputan, laputan: Dictionary.com
  7. Laputan: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. laputan: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Laputan: Rhymezone
  10. Laputan: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. laputan: FreeDictionary.org
  12. laputan: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. Laputan: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. Laputan: Merriam-Webster

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  1. laputan: A Word A Day
  2. Laputan: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Laputan)

▸ adjective:  Fanciful; preposterous; absurd in philosophy or science.
▸ noun:  A native or inhabitant of the fictional island of Laputa.

Similar:
phantastique, præposterous, Pythonesque, suppositious, phantastical, supposititious, phantasticall, pseudophilosophical, pseudish, philosophistical, more...

Opposite:
terrestrial, down-to-earth, practical

Types:
slovenly, unkempt, negligent, careless, slapdash, haphazard, more...

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Similar:
phantastique, præposterous, Pythonesque, suppositious, phantastical, supposititious, phantasticall, pseudophilosophical, pseudish, philosophistical, more...

Opposite:
terrestrial, down-to-earth, practical

Types:
slovenly, unkempt, negligent, careless, slapdash, haphazard, more...



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