laputan

Adjective

Synonyms: Laputan airy impractical visionary windy

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (2)

relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Laputa or its peopleSynonyms: Laputan
not practical or realizable; speculative“airy theories about socioeconomic improvement”“visionary schemes for getting rich”Synonyms: airy impractical visionary Laputan windy

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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]