About The Word Lotus-eater
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Lotus-eater
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What's The Definition Of Lotus-eater?
[n] someone indifferent to the busy world; "in the Odyssey Homer tells of lotus-eaters who live in dreamy indolence"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Lotus-eater: stargazer Related Terms | Find terms related to Lotus-eater: clock watcher | dallier | dawdle | dawdler | daydreamer | diddler | dillydallier | dolittle | Don Quixote | do-nothing | doodler | dreamer | dreamer of dreams | enthusiast | escapist | faineant | gentleman of leisure | goldbrick | goldbricker | goof-off | idealist | idler | laggard | lingerer | loafer | loiterer | loller | lounger | lubber | mope | moper | potterer | prophet | putterer | Quixote | rhapsodist | romancer | romantic | romanticist | seer | slouch | sloucher | slug | sluggard | stick-in-the-mud | time killer | time waster | trifler | utopian | utopianist | utopianizer | visionary | waiter on Providence | wishful thinker See Also | daydreamer | woolgatherer Lotus-eater In Webster's Dictionary \Lo"tus-eat`er\, Lotos-eater \Lo"tos-eat`er\, n.
(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.
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