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Word | Fallow |
cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons / left uncultivated; it can also mean untrained or inactive / Pale red or pale yellow / ploughed but not sown or planted. / plowed but not sowed; uncultivated / (of farmland) plowed and harrowed but left unsown for a period in order to restore its fertility as part of a crop rotation or to avoid surplus production. / of a light yellowish-brown color / usu. cultivated land that is allowed to lie idle during the growing season / obsolete : plowed land / the state or period of being fallow / the tilling of land without sowing it for a season / to plow, harrow, and break up (land) without seeding to destroy weeds and conserve soil moisture / left untilled or unsown after plowing / dormant, inactive —used especially in the phrase to lie fallow at this very moment there are probably important inventions lying fallow — Harper's, | |
Usage | ⇒ There are lots of fallow farmland in Punjab ⇒ Farmers have learned that it is advisable to permit land to lie fallow every few years. ⇒ incentives for farmers to let the land lie fallow in order to reduce grain surpluses ⇒ The fallow land ⇒ lie fallow |
Synonyms | inactive, uncultivated, unproductive, barren, sterile, dormant, idle, infertile, unfruitful, untilled, golden, inert, primrose, sandy, unemployed, unfertile, unplowed, yellow, arid, aureate, |
Antonyms | active, cultivated, alive, developed, energetic, exploited, functional, functioning, going, living, on, operating, operational, operative, plowed, used, working, active voice, adroit, artful, |
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