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in holding pattern synonyms

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  • dormant
  • inactive
  • inoperative
  • quiescent
  • sleeping
  • suspended
  • catching some zzz's
  • comatose
  • conked
  • crashed
  • dormant
  • dozing
  • dreaming
  • flaked out
  • getting shut-eye
  • hibernating
  • in dreamland
  • in repose
  • inactive
  • inert
  • napping
  • on the kip
  • out
  • out cold
  • out like a light
  • banausic
  • bland
  • boring
  • dim
  • dreary
  • humdrum
  • monotone
  • monotonous
  • pedestrian
  • plodding
  • yawn producing
  • disjoined
  • free
  • separated
  • unattached
  • unengaged
  • bum
  • clock watcher
  • couch potato
  • deadbeat
  • good-for-nothing
  • goof-off
  • idler
  • laggard
  • layabout
  • lazy person
  • lazybones
  • loafer
  • lotus eater
  • lounger
  • malingerer
  • moocher
  • shirker
  • slacker
  • sloth
  • abeyant
  • asleep
  • closed down
  • comatose
  • down
  • fallow
  • hibernating
  • inert
  • inoperative
  • latent
  • lethargic
  • lurking
  • on the shelf
  • out of action
  • passive
  • potential
  • prepatent
  • quiescent
  • sidelined
  • bottomward
  • cascading
  • declining
  • depressed
  • descending
  • downgrade
  • downhill
  • downward
  • dropping
  • earthward
  • falling
  • gravitating
  • groundward
  • inferior
  • nether
  • precipitating
  • sagging
  • sinking
  • sliding
  • blah
  • callous
  • cold
  • cool
  • could care less
  • couldn't care less
  • don't give a damn
  • emotionless
  • flat
  • impassive
  • indifferent
  • insensible
  • laid-back
  • languid
  • moony
  • passive
  • stoic
  • stolid
  • unconcerned
  • addled
  • backward
  • besotted
  • boring
  • brainless
  • daffy
  • daft
  • dense
  • dim
  • dim-witted
  • doltish
  • dumb
  • feeble-minded
  • half-baked
  • ignorant
  • imbecilic
  • indolent
  • insensate
  • low
  • abortive
  • bootless
  • empty
  • frivolous
  • fruitless
  • futile
  • groundless
  • hollow
  • insignificant
  • irrelevant
  • not serious
  • nugatory
  • of no avail
  • otiose
  • pointless
  • rambling
  • superficial
  • trivial
  • unavailing
  • anchored
  • at a standstill
  • at rest
  • frozen
  • immobilized
  • immotile
  • immovable
  • nailed
  • nailed down
  • pat
  • quiescent
  • rigid
  • riveted
  • rooted
  • stable
  • stagnant
  • static
  • stationary
  • steadfast
  • drony
  • easygoing
  • fainéant
  • idle
  • inactive
  • inert
  • lackadaisical
  • languid
  • lax
  • lazy
  • lethargic
  • listless
  • resting
  • shiftless
  • slothful
  • slow
  • slow-going
  • sluggish
  • torpid
  • broken
  • defective
  • faulty
  • unworkable
  • void
  • between jobs
  • collecting unemployment benefits
  • laid off
  • on the dole
  • out of a job
  • out of work
  • without employment
  • without gainful employment
  • workless
  • abeyant
  • between the lines
  • concealed
  • contained
  • covert
  • idle
  • immature
  • implied
  • in abeyance
  • inactive
  • inert
  • inferential
  • inferred
  • inherent
  • inoperative
  • intrinsic
  • invisible
  • involved
  • lurking
  • any way
  • asleep on job
  • behindhand
  • broad
  • careless
  • casual
  • delinquent
  • derelict
  • devil-may-care
  • disregardful
  • easygoing
  • flaccid
  • forgetful
  • general
  • imprecise
  • inaccurate
  • indefinite
  • indifferent
  • inexact
  • apathetic
  • blah
  • comatose
  • debilitated
  • dilatory
  • dopey
  • dormant
  • draggy
  • drowsy
  • dull
  • enervated
  • having spring fever
  • heavy
  • idle
  • impassive
  • inactive
  • indifferent
  • inert
  • lackadaisical
  • bending
  • debilitated
  • drooping
  • droopy
  • ductile
  • enervated
  • exhausted
  • feeble
  • flabby
  • flaccid
  • flexible
  • flexuous
  • flimsy
  • floppy
  • impressible
  • infirm
  • languid
  • languishing
  • lax
  • easygoing
  • laid-back
  • loose
  • low-pitched
  • muffled
  • muted
  • played down
  • quiet
  • relaxed
  • restrained
  • sober
  • soft-sell
  • softened
  • subtle
  • toned down
  • understated
  • abeyant
  • asleep
  • blah
  • disengaged
  • do-nothing
  • dormant
  • down
  • draggy
  • dull
  • idle
  • immobile
  • in holding pattern
  • indolent
  • inoperative
  • jobless
  • latent
  • lax
  • lethargic
  • limp
  • apoplectic
  • at a standstill
  • at rest
  • becalmed
  • dead
  • deadlocked
  • deathly
  • firm
  • fixed
  • frozen
  • halted
  • immobile
  • immotile
  • inanimate
  • inert
  • lifeless
  • numb
  • palsied
  • paralyzed
  • adjourned
  • assessed
  • charged
  • delayed
  • funded
  • held up
  • in waiting
  • indebted
  • negotiated
  • on the shelf
  • pigeonholed
  • postponed
  • prolonged
  • protracted
  • remanded
  • renegotiated
  • retarded
  • scrubbed
  • stalled
  • fossilized
  • hard
  • hardened
  • petrified
  • rigid
  • beat-up
  • bent
  • blemished
  • busted
  • dinged
  • down
  • flawed
  • flubbed
  • fouled up
  • glitched
  • gone
  • hurt
  • impaired
  • imperfect
  • in need of repair
  • in poor condition
  • in smithereens
  • injured
  • kaput
  • decommissioned
  • down
  • faulty
  • in repair
  • kaput
  • not in service
  • out of kilter
  • out of order
  • out of whack
  • abeyant
  • asleep
  • blah
  • disengaged
  • do-nothing
  • dormant
  • down
  • draggy
  • dull
  • idle
  • immobile
  • in holding pattern
  • indolent
  • inoperative
  • jobless
  • latent
  • lax
  • lethargic
  • limp
  • between jobs
  • collecting unemployment
  • idle
  • jobless
  • laid off
  • on the dole
  • out of a job
  • unemployed
  • acquiescent
  • apathetic
  • asleep
  • bearing
  • compliant
  • cool
  • docile
  • enduring
  • flat
  • forbearing
  • going through motions
  • hands off
  • idle
  • indifferent
  • inert
  • laid-back
  • latent
  • long-suffering
  • moony
  • asleep
  • at rest
  • deactivated
  • dormant
  • fallow
  • idle
  • immobile
  • in abeyance
  • inert
  • inoperative
  • latent
  • motionless
  • passive
  • quiet
  • slumbering
  • stagnant
  • still
  • buttoned up
  • clammed up
  • close
  • close-mouthed
  • could hear a pin drop
  • dumb
  • hushed
  • hushful
  • inaudible
  • low
  • low-pitched
  • muffled
  • mute
  • muted
  • noiseless
  • not saying boo
  • peaceful
  • quiescent
  • quieted
  • desk
  • desk-bound
  • idle
  • inactive
  • seated
  • settled
  • sitting
  • sluggish
  • stationary
  • torpid
  • dull
  • easy
  • feeble
  • flabby
  • flaccid
  • flexible
  • flimsy
  • inert
  • infirm
  • laggard
  • lax
  • leisurely
  • limp
  • not taut
  • passive
  • quaggy
  • quiet
  • relaxed
  • sloppy
  • asleep
  • blah
  • comatose
  • dopey
  • dozy
  • draggy
  • drowsy
  • heavy
  • hypnotic
  • inactive
  • lethargic
  • listless
  • out
  • out of it
  • quiet
  • sleeping
  • sleepyhead
  • slow
  • sluggish
  • comatose
  • dallying
  • dull
  • idle
  • inactive
  • inattentive
  • indolent
  • inert
  • lackadaisical
  • laggard
  • lagging
  • languid
  • lethargic
  • lifeless
  • listless
  • loafing
  • passive
  • procrastinating
  • slack
  • apathetic
  • crawling
  • creeping
  • dawdling
  • delaying
  • deliberate
  • dilatory
  • disinclined
  • dreamy
  • drowsy
  • easy
  • gradual
  • heavy
  • idle
  • imperceptible
  • inactive
  • indolent
  • inert
  • lackadaisical
  • apathetic
  • blah
  • comatose
  • dopey
  • down
  • dragging
  • draggy
  • drippy
  • heavy
  • hebetudinous
  • inactive
  • indolent
  • inert
  • laid-back
  • languid
  • languorous
  • leaden
  • lethargic
  • lifeless
  • asleep
  • dozy
  • drowsy
  • listless
  • nodding off
  • out of it
  • sleeping
  • snoozy
  • soporific
  • tired
  • abiding
  • anchored
  • balanced
  • brick-wall
  • calm
  • deep-rooted
  • durable
  • enduring
  • equable
  • established
  • even
  • fast
  • firm
  • immutable
  • invariable
  • lasting
  • nailed
  • perdurable
  • permanent
  • at a standstill
  • constant
  • deadlocked
  • fixed
  • format
  • gridlocked
  • immobile
  • immovable
  • inactive
  • inert
  • latent
  • passive
  • rigid
  • stabile
  • stable
  • stagnant
  • stalled
  • standing still
  • stationary
  • at rest
  • buttoned up
  • clammed up
  • close-mouthed
  • closed
  • deathlike
  • deathly
  • deathly quiet
  • deathly still
  • fixed
  • halcyon
  • hushed
  • hushful
  • inert
  • lifeless
  • noiseless
  • pacific
  • peaceful
  • placid
  • apathetic
  • benumbed
  • comatose
  • dopey
  • dormant
  • drowsy
  • dull
  • faineant
  • fainéant
  • heavy
  • hebetudinous
  • idle
  • inactive
  • indifferent
  • indolent
  • inert
  • lackadaisical
  • languid
  • languorous
  • at liberty
  • between jobs
  • closed down
  • disengaged
  • down
  • fired
  • free
  • idle
  • inactive
  • jobless
  • laid off
  • leisured
  • loafing
  • on layoff
  • on the bench
  • on the dole
  • on the shelf
  • out of a job
  • out of action
  • abandoned
  • deserted
  • empty
  • free
  • tenantless
  • unfilled
  • uninhabited
  • untenanted
  • unused
  • vacant
  • brand new
  • brand-
  • fresh
  • idle
  • mint condition
  • new
  • remaining
  • unaccustomed
  • unfamiliar
  • untapped
  • untried
  • vacant

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