Synonyms for fallow
ˈfæl oʊfal·low

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1. fallow

   Synonyms:
   quiescent, idle, uncultivated, unproductive, untilled

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

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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:
   pale red or pale yellow

2. fallowadjective

   Synonyms:
   untilled, unsowed

3. fallownoun

   Synonyms:
   untilled land

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1. fallowadjective

   Synonyms:
   uncultivated, untilled, dormant, inactive

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1. List of paraphrases for "fallow":

   summerfallow, set-aside, fallowing, setaside

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1. 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.

2. Andrew Broddus:

   Driving through Sacramento Valley, I’ve seen many more open fallow rice fields with nothing on them, it’s because land that’s used for rice farming really ca n’t be used for another crop.

3. Phrang Roy:

   On these fallow lands, there's a lot of generation of wild edibles that are very nutrient rich, and are important for trees, bees, pollinators and birds, we can't just extract everything, there's a need to replenish even as we use.

4. 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.

5. Robert Hilliard:

   This is a legally fallow attempt to undermine years of hard work and cooperative effort.