Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Greek Mythology One of a people described in the Odyssey who lived in a drugged, indolent state from feeding on the lotus.
- n. A lazy person devoted to pleasure and luxury.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of the Lotophagi; hence, one who finds pleasure in a listless, dreamy life; a devotee of indolent pleasures; a languid voluptuary.
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone indifferent to the busy world
Examples
“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"
“Being by nature a lotus-eater, I hope to avoid this fate.”
“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.
“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.”
“About it were chairs and divans that would have satisfied a lotus-eater.”
“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
“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.”
“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.”
“It was aristocratic, enchantingly indolent, like the face of a happy lotus-eater.”
“Turning into a dark doorway, the woman switched light into an electric dome, illuminating an interior apartment transformed, by a wildly original taste in eccentric decoration, into a lounging room of such distressful uniquity that it would have bred unrest in the soul of a lotus-eater.”
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