goes nowhere
Achieves no progress
Goes nowhere describes something that fails to make progress or produce results.
A conversation, argument, or investigation goes nowhere when it reaches no conclusion: The negotiations went nowhere for months.
A road that goes nowhere leads to a dead end.
Plans or careers that go nowhere lack advancement or purpose.
Total cessation of movement
- deadlockMutual blocking, no progress
- impasseSituation without resolution
- stalemateMutual obstruction preventing progress
- gridlockComplete mutual obstruction
plateau · inertia · rut · doldrums · stasis · stuck · spinning wheels · treading water
Incapable of producing results
- fruitlessProducing no useful outcome
- pointlessLacking any purpose
- uselessWithout practical value
- vainExcessively proud or futile
unavailing · bootless · ineffectual · unproductive · abortive · empty · hollow · meaningless
Moving without purpose
- wanderingTraveling with no fixed course
- directionlessWithout aim or guidance
- adriftFloating without control
- lostUnable to navigate
meandering · rambling · unfocused · circling · going in circles · rudderless · wayward · unchanneled
standstill
Total cessation of movement
- deadlockMutual blocking, no progress
- impasseSituation without resolution
- stalemateMutual obstruction preventing progress
gridlock · plateau · inertia · rut · doldrums · stasis · stuck · spinning wheels · treading water · dead end
futile
Incapable of producing results
vain · unavailing · bootless · ineffectual · unproductive · abortive · empty · hollow · meaningless · purposeless
drifting
Moving without purpose
- wanderingTraveling with no fixed course
- directionlessWithout aim or guidance
- adriftFloating without control
lost · meandering · rambling · unfocused · circling · going in circles · rudderless · wayward · unchanneled · scattershot
blocked
Passage prevented or impeded
impeded · obstructed · roadblock · barrier · obstacle · snag · setback · stonewalled · halted · derailed
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Forward movements or progress
progresses · moves forward · makes headway · takes off · picks up steam
goes, gone, goer, goers, where, nowhere, somewhere, anywhere, everywhere