lotus eater
Pleasure-drunk drifter
A lotus eater is someone who lives in dreamy, indolent contentment, indifferent to practical concerns.
The term comes from Homer's *Odyssey*, where Odysseus's men eat lotus fruit and lose all desire to return home.
The phrase now describes anyone who drifts through life in pleasurable idleness: He spent his twenties as a lotus eater, traveling and avoiding responsibility.
Also spelled lotus-eater.
One given to fantasies
- fantasistCreator of fictions
- daydreamerHabitual reverie indulger
- escapistSeeker of distraction
- romanticConducive to love
idealist · utopian · visionary · stargazer · reverie · dreamland · withdrawal · detachment
Habitually unproductive person
- loungerOne who relaxes idly
- loaferLaceless slip-on shoe
- layaboutHabitually idle person
- slackerIdle responsibility evader
sluggard · do-nothing · dawdler · lazybones · couch potato · drone · shirker · languid
One pursuing enjoyment above all
- sensualistOne devoted to pleasures
- sybariteLover of lavish comfort
- epicureanConnoisseur of sensual pleasures
- voluptuaryLover of sensory excess
libertine · bon vivant · decadent · self-indulgent · luxurious · indulgent · gratification · sensuality
Not participating or invested
- unmotivatedLacking incentive or drive
- aimlessHaving no direction
- drifterAimless, rootless traveler
- unconcernedFeeling no worry
indifferent · passive · detached · nonchalant · insouciant · unambitious · purposeless · directionless
dreamer
One given to fantasies
- fantasistCreator of fictions
- daydreamerHabitual reverie indulger
- escapistSeeker of distraction
romantic · idealist · utopian · visionary · stargazer · reverie · dreamland · withdrawal · detachment · oblivion
idler
Habitually unproductive person
slacker · sluggard · do-nothing · dawdler · lazybones · couch potato · drone · shirker · languid · listless
pleasure-seeker
One pursuing enjoyment above all
- sensualistOne devoted to pleasures
- sybariteLover of lavish comfort
- epicureanConnoisseur of sensual pleasures
voluptuary · libertine · bon vivant · decadent · self-indulgent · luxurious · indulgent · gratification · sensuality · opulence
disengaged
Not participating or invested
- unmotivatedLacking incentive or drive
- aimlessHaving no direction
- drifterAimless, rootless traveler
unconcerned · indifferent · passive · detached · nonchalant · insouciant · unambitious · purposeless · directionless · complacent
- AllusionsAchilles heel, Pandora's box, Trojan horse, forbidden fruit, Midas touch
- pleasure seekershedonist, hedonists, pleasure seeker, pleasure seekers, pleasure-seeker
lotus eatergo-getter
Ambitious, driven person
striver · overachiever · climber · hustler · careerist
lotus eaterrealist
One accepting hard truths
pragmatist · activist · man of action · crusader · reformer
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