Laputa (Noun)
Meaning
A land imagined by Jonathan Swift where impractical projects were pursued and practical projects neglected.
Classification
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
Examples
- The nation's prioritization of fancy technological gadgets over basic infrastructure had turned it into a modern-day Laputa, where style trumped substance.
- Their focus on pie-in-the-sky innovations rather than real-world problems had made them a Laputa, full of unrealistic dreams but short on practical solutions.
- As a symbol of Laputa's bureaucratic ineptness, the agency spent millions on conceptual art installations while struggling to fund actual infrastructure repairs.
- His hometown was fast becoming a Laputa, where abstract theoretical models were worshipped while actual physical realities crumbled around them.
- This high-rise monstrosity stood as a monument to the developer's Laputa-esque excess, all style and no substance, destined to crumble within years of its construction.