However, this can lead to livelock—the optimistic analog of indefinite blocking in which methods continuously spin without making any further progress.
Source: wiktionary
Livelock
Synonyms for "livelock"
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
A process is considered to be in a state of livelock when thread code is still executing, but two or more threads are in a never-ending cycle with each other and no useful work is being done.
Source: wiktionary
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.