lotus-eater
Americannoun
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Classical Mythology. a member of a people whom Odysseus found existing in a state of languorous forgetfulness induced by their eating of the fruit of the legendary lotus; one of the lotophagi.
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a person who leads a life of dreamy, indolent ease, indifferent to the busy world; daydreamer.
noun
Etymology
Origin of lotus-eater
First recorded in 1660–80; singular of lotus-eaters, translation of Latin Lōtophagī, from Greek Lōtophágoi, noun use of masculine plural adjective lōtophágos “lotus-eating.” See lotus, -phagous
Vocabulary lists containing lotus-eater
Example Sentences
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I felt a dash of the infatuation of the lotus-eater, in his "—land that seemed always afternoon."
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
His was not the temperament of the lotus-eater.
From A Vanished Hand by Sarah Doudney
There is much truth in Mr. Gosse's saying that "the poet is not a lotus-eater who has never known the Gospel, but an evangelist turned inside out."
From Old and New Masters by Robert Lynd
About it were chairs and divans that would have satisfied a lotus-eater.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
In this case I waited till I felt like a lotus-eater who could have stayed on forever.
From A-Birding on a Bronco by Florence A. Merriam
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