Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Greek Mythology One of a people described in the Odyssey who lived in a drugged, indolent state from feeding on the lotus.
- noun A lazy person devoted to pleasure and luxury.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the Lotophagi; hence, one who finds pleasure in a listless, dreamy life; a devotee of indolent pleasures; a languid voluptuary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone indifferent to the busy world
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Examples
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After one night's smoking he acquires a fascination for opium and fellow lotus-eater Maung Ba Ohn. Robinson writes, Occasionally I had met men upon whom it was good to look.
High in Burma: A review of H. R. Robinson's "A Modern De Quincey" 2005
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Being by nature a lotus-eater, I hope to avoid this fate.
Archive 2005-08-01 Jenny Davidson 2005
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Being by nature a lotus-eater, I hope to avoid this fate.
A funny essay about novel-writing Jenny Davidson 2005
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The fabled lotus-eater wished never to leave the isle whence he had plucked it.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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How they got home you must read in Homer: -- Mr. Tennyson -- himself, we presume, a dreamy lotus-eater, a delicious lotus-eater -- leaves them in full song.
Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney
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About it were chairs and divans that would have satisfied a lotus-eater.
We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914
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All this has its delightful aspect; and he who would view a lotus-eater in his paradise should watch an
Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911
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Looking back later upon that fateful night, it seemed to Stella that she must indeed have slept the sleep of the lotus-eater, for no misgivings pierced the numb unconsciousness that held her through the still hours.
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Foolish we may often be, yet we cannot accept this Gethsemane for a garden of the gods; the most wilful lotus-eater must perforce see the streaming tears, the stain of blood, the shadow of death.
The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little Grenville Kleiser 1910
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It was aristocratic, enchantingly indolent, like the face of a happy lotus-eater.
The Garden of Allah Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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