lotus-eater Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun someone indifferent to the busy world
    stargazer.
    • in the Odyssey Homer tells of lotus-eaters who live in dreamy indolence

WordNet


Lo"tus-eat`er, Lo"tos-eat`er noun (Also<
  • Lotus-eater
  • Lotos-eater
)
Definitions
  1. (Class. Myth.) One who ate the fruit or leaf of the lotus, and, as a consequence, gave himself up to indolence and daydreams; one of the Lotophagi.
    The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters. Tennyson.

Webster 1913