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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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