[ajamesm]

In that case, I guess we're just drawing from different glossaries. I've always heard "blocked" used to mean "can't execute because of something other threads are doing" regardless of whether that's starvation or getting slept by a mutex.

[charleslmunger]

I don't think that's a definition that makes sense - consider Thread.sleep(Integer.MAX_VALUE). I think we would all agree that the thread is blocked, but not on the progress of other threads.