Antonyms for fallow
ˈfæl oʊfal·low

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1. fallow

   Antonyms:
   cultivated, worked, tilled, sown, productive, operative, prolific, fruitful

   Synonyms:
   quiescent, idle, uncultivated, unproductive, untilled

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1. fallowadjective

   cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons

   Antonyms:
   exploited, plowed, ploughed

2. fallowadjective

   left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season

   "fallow farmland"

   Antonyms:
   exploited, plowed, ploughed

3. fallowadjective

   undeveloped but potentially useful

   "a fallow gold market"

   Antonyms:
   exploited, plowed, ploughed

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1. fallowadjective

   Synonyms:
   uncultivated, untilled, dormant, inactive

How to use fallow in a sentence?

1. David Beasley:

   If Ukrainian fields lie fallow this year, aid agencies such as ours will be forced to source new markets to compensate for the loss of some of the world's best wheat, doing so will come at a vastly inflated cost.

2. Egerton Smith:

   Man is the only animal with the powers of laughter, a privilege which was not bestowed on him for nothing. Let us then laugh while we may, no matter how broad the laugh may be, and despite of what the poet says about ?the loud laugh that speaks the vacant mind.? The mind should occasionally be vacant, as the land should sometimes lie fallow, and for precisely the same reason.

3. J. W. Alexander:

   There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.

4. Henry Miller:

   The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean -- when boredom seems the very stuff of life.

5. Nirmala Sitharaman:

   A scheme to enable farmers to set up solar power generation capacity on their barren/fallow lands and to sell it to the grid would be operationalized.

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