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