NEW a thread that has not yet started is in this state

RUNNABLE a thread executing in the Java virtual machine is in this state

BLOCKED a thread that is blocked waiting for a monitor lock is in this state

WAITING a thread that is waiting indefinitely for another thread to perform a particular action is in this state

TIMED_WAITING a thread that is waiting for another thread to perform an action for up to a specified waiting time

TERMINATED a thread that has exited is in this state