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. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.