Meaning of LOTUS-EATER
| Pronunciation: | | 'lowtus`eetur
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[n] someone indifferent to the busy world; "in the Odyssey Homer tells of lotus-eaters who live in dreamy indolence" |
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LOTUS-EATER is a 11 letter word that starts with L. |
| | Synonyms: | | stargazer |
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| | See Also: | | daydreamer, woolgatherer | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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