ord
unambition
holding pattern
low-water mark
elusiveness
ignorance
hole-in-the-wall
nowhere
starting gate
ground zero
swamp
ahistorical
den
wrestle
static
void
blind alley
nowhereness
boundarylessness
imperfectness
dead on arrival
flopdom
nonsuccess
nonpursuit
roving
stumbling stone
a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
on the skids
dead end
directionless
frontier settlement
slough of despond
successlessness
uncontent
dead-end
unsettleable
failure
prospectless
nonsettleable
backwater
unsatiety
unfulfillment
outpost
idealessness
darkness
nonadvancement
noncollaboration
underinspired
strugglingly