The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lotus-eater \Lo"tus-eat`er\ (l[=o]"t[u^]s-[=e]t`[~e]r), Lotos-eater \Lo"tos-eat`er\ (l[=o]"t[o^]s-[=e]t`[~e]r), 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.
WordNet
n. someone indifferent to the busy world; "in the Odyssey Homer tells of lotus-eaters who live in dreamy indolence" [syn: stargazer]
Usage examples of "lotus-eater".
Diana, have you really performed suttee, have you buried yourself alive in this sweet spot deliberately, or has the love of retirement grown upon you, and have you become a kind of lotus-eater?
Hemmed in on the land side by high walls, groves, and gardens, perched upon a rock two hundred feet above the water, how much more secure from invasion is this than any fabled island of the southern sea, or any remote stream where the boats of the lotus-eaters float!
And these-- for the moment, at least-- are the young lotus-eaters, the barefoot mystics and hairy freaks of the Haight-Ashbury -- all those primitive Christians, peaceful nay-sayers and half-deluded "flower children" who refuse to participate in a society which looks to them like a mean, calculated and soul-destroying hoax.