Laputa
noun
an imaginary flying island in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, the inhabitants of which engaged in a variety of ridiculous projects and pseudoscientific experiments.
Laputan
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a word derived from
Laputa.
Example Sentences
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As absent as a Laputan, he leaves his hat in one room, his sword in another, and would leave his shoes, if unfastened, in a third.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery
Laputan, la-pū′tan, adj. pertaining to Laputa, a flying island described in Swift's Gulliver's Travels as inhabited by all sorts of ridiculous projectors: absurd: chimerical.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Instead of adapting the constitution to the people, he distorted the minds of the people to suit the constitution, a scheme worthy of the Laputan Academy of Projectors.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
