lotus-eater
noun [C]Definition
› someone who has a very comfortable, lazy life and does not worry about anythingLaziness and lazy peopleAvoiding action
(Definition of lotus-eater noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
© Cambridge University Press)
Browse related topics
You are looking at an entry to do with Laziness and lazy people, but you might be interested in these topics from the Working topic area:
Browse the Dictionary
Browse the Thesaurus
SMART Thesaurus
Synonyms and related words:
- bone idle idiom
- bum around phrasal verb
- CBA
- clock-watching noun
- couch potato noun
- deadbeat noun
- idly adverb
- indolent adjective
- layabout noun
- lazy adjective
- lazybones noun
- phone in sth phrasal verb
- shiftless adjective
- shirker noun
- skiver noun
- slacker noun
- slut noun (LAZY WOMAN)
- time-server noun
- vegetable noun (PERSON)
- work-shy adjective
Topic:
Laziness and lazy people
Our dictionaries
Word of the Day
be under a cloud
to not be trusted or popular because people think you have done something bad
Blog
Read our blog about how the English language behaves.
New Words
Find words and meanings that have just started to be used in English, and let us know what you think of them.
