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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

LOTUS-EATER; LOTOS-EATER

Lo "tus-eat `er, Lo "tos-eat `er, n. (Class. Myth. )

Defn: 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.

New American Oxford Dictionary

lotus-eater

lo tus-eat er ▶noun a person who spends time indulging in pleasure and luxury rather than dealing with practical concerns. DERIVATIVES lo tus-eat ing adjective ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from the people in Homer's Odyssey who lived on the fruit of the lotus, which was said to cause a dreamy forgetfulness in those who ate it.

Oxford Dictionary

lotus-eater

lotus-eater |ˈləʊtəsiːtə | ▶noun a person who spends their time indulging in pleasure and luxury rather than dealing with practical concerns. DERIVATIVES lotus-eating adjective

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

lotus-eater

l ó tus- è ater 名詞 C 1 〘ギ神〙ロトパゴス〘Odysseyに現れる, ロートスの実を食べて苦難を忘れ, 安逸に暮らす民の1人〙.2 安逸 [怠惰 ]に暮らす人, 夢想家 .