Crossword clues for laputan
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Usage examples of "laputan".
Its deductive approach, even to the measurement of clothing, results in complete ineptitude, and its array of abstract misfits, flappers, and adulterous wives, fleshes out the impression that the Laputans not only have the wrong idea but insist in imposing that idea universally.
Laputan power is simply territorial and technological: by virtue of their magnetic suspension over Balnibarbi and their capacity within limits to control their position, Laputans are able to exert an almost literal oppression on their colony.
Did the Laputans have spots, moles, something like that, which distinguished them?