Definitions for lotus-eater

lotus-eater lo·tus-eat·er

Spelling: [loh-tuh s-ee-ter]
IPA: /ˈloʊ təsˌi tər/

Lotus-Eater is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 779 anagrams from letters in lotus-eater (-aeelorsttu).

Definitions for lotus-eater

noun

  1. 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.
  2. a person who leads a life of dreamy, indolent ease, indifferent to the busy world; daydreamer.

Origin of lotus-eater

1825-35; singular of lotus-eaters, translation of Greek Lōtophágoi, noun use of masculine plural of lōtophágos lotus-eating. See lotus, -phag

Examples for lotus-eater

The lotus-eater gave up family and country; "chewing the lotus, he forgot the return."

We may be happy for a brief while, with the brief happiness of a lotus-eater; but it cannot last—it cannot last!

She was dreaming already with her eyes open, and she sank into number six in a lotus-eater's reverie.

The fog lifted and I've been living the life of a lotus-eater—but now I've got to go back into the fog.

In this case I waited till I felt like a lotus-eater who could have stayed on forever.

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.

About it were chairs and divans that would have satisfied a lotus-eater.

Word Value for lotus-eater
Scrable

5

Words with friends

7

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