Laputan

La·pu·tan

L0049600 (lə-pyo͞ot′n)adj. Absurdly impractical or visionary, especially to the neglect of more useful activity.

[After the flying island of Laputa, in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where absurd projects are pursued and useful pursuits neglected.]

La·pu′tan n.

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	Laputan - relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Laputa or its people
	2.	Laputan - not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich"visionary, windy, airy, impracticalutopian - characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection; "the dim utopian future"; "utopian idealists"; "recognized the utopian nature of his hopes"