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. 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.

2. George Kostyrko:

   The governor's executive order calls on every Californian to help save water during this drought and it specifically includes limiting car washing and making sure to wash with recycled water, all over the state many Californians are rising to the challenge and there's always more conservation work to be done, George Kostyrko said. Unlike many commercial car washes, the county's facilities do not use recirculated water, The Daily News said. The supervisors declined to answer questions from The Daily News about the car washing. County public information officers and representatives for Garcetti had no immediate comment when contacted by Reuters. California is in its fourth year of a withering drought that has killed 12.5 million trees, forced farmers to fallow a half-million acres of land and left mountains bereft of snow that melts to replenish streams and reservoirs. Garcetti's.

3. Robert Hilliard:

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

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. Phil Verleger:

   A lot of truckers just won't be able to operate, if you're a farmer, you may have to leave some acres fallow, or won't fertilize as much. The macroeconomists don't get this. It's going to come back and haunt us all.