/loh"teuhs ee'teuhr/ , n.
1. Class. Myth. 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.
[ 1825-35; sing. of lotus-eaters, trans. of Gk Lotophágoi, n. use of masc. pl. of lotophágos lotus-eating. See LOTUS, -PHAGOUS ]