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lotus-eater
[ loh-tuhs-ee-ter ]
noun
- Classical Mythology. a member of a people whom Odysseus found existing in a state of languorous forgetfulness induced by their eating of the fruit of the legendary lotus; one of the lotophagi.
- a person who leads a life of dreamy, indolent ease, indifferent to the busy world; daydreamer.
lotus-eater
noun
- Greek myth one of a people encountered by Odysseus in North Africa who lived in indolent forgetfulness, drugged by the fruit of the legendary lotus
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
He was still lost in the dreams of the lotus-eater when he heard something that resembled the rattling of his own noisy car.
Thus we mark the inner transition: the active principle of that which was a passive Lotus-eater is the Cyclops, a Polyphemus.
The Lotus-eater gave up family and country; "chewing the lotus, he forgot the return."
"It is exhausting, but with my usual energy I do it all the same," said Ernest, who is as a fact the world's champion lotus-eater.
She was dreaming already with her eyes open, and she sank into number six in a lotus-eater's reverie.
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