fallow

The word “fallow” has 2 syllables: fal-low

It's pronounced as /ˈfæloʊ/


What is synonym and antonym for fallow?

In the thesaurus, “fallow” has 52 synonyms and 30 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for fallow along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for fallow

  • abeyant
  • arrested
  • asleep
  • at rest
  • break
  • comatose
  • cultivate
  • dead
  • dormant
  • dull
  • free
  • furrow
  • harrow
  • hoe
  • idle
  • inactive
  • inert
  • inoperable
  • inoperative
  • interrupted
  • latent
  • lifeless
  • list
  • moribund
  • neglected
  • off
  • on the shelf
  • out of commission
  • plow
  • quiescent
  • rake
  • resting
  • rototill
  • slack
  • sleepy
  • slow
  • suspended
  • till
  • uncultivated
  • undeveloped
  • unoccupied
  • unplanted
  • unplowed
  • unproductive
  • unseeded
  • untilled
  • unusable
  • unused
  • unworkable
  • useless
  • vacant
  • virgin

Antonyms for fallow

  • active
  • alive
  • assiduous
  • busy
  • cultivated
  • developed
  • employed
  • energetic
  • feasible
  • functional
  • functioning
  • going
  • industrious
  • living
  • on
  • operable
  • operating
  • operational
  • operative
  • practical
  • running
  • sedulous
  • usable
  • useable
  • used
  • useful
  • viable
  • vigorous
  • workable
  • working

Meanings of fallow

  • noun
    1. Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
    2. Uncultivated land.
    3. The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.
  • adjective
    1. (of agricultural land) Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
    2. (of agricultural land) Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.
    3. Inactive; undeveloped.
    4. (color) Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.
  • verb
    1. To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.

Example Sentences

  • Farmers often leave fields fallow to allow the soil to replenish its nutrients.
  • The once-productive farmland now lay fallow and overgrown with weeds.
  • The fallow period gave the land a chance to recover from years of intensive cultivation.
  • We walked through the fallow meadow, noticing the absence of crops or grazing animals.
  • The garden remained fallow during the winter months, awaiting spring planting.

On this page you'll find 82 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to fallow, such as: abeyant, active, alive, arrested, asleep, assiduous, at rest.

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Related Words

abeyant

  • arrested
  • asleep
  • comatose
  • dead
  • dormant
  • dull
  • fallow
  • free
  • idle
  • inactive
  • inert
  • inoperable
  • inoperative
  • interrupted
  • latent
  • lifeless
  • moribund
  • off
  • quiescent
  • sleeping
  • sleepy
  • slow
  • suspended
  • unoccupied
  • unusable
  • unused
  • unworkable
  • useless
  • vacant

dated

dead

  • abeyant
  • absolute
  • absolutely
  • abundantly
  • all
  • all in
  • all of
  • all over
  • all the way
  • all-out
  • altogether
  • anesthetized
  • antiquated
  • apathetic
  • arid
  • arrant
  • arrested
  • as the crow flies
  • asleep
  • at length
  • at rest
  • authentic
  • aweary
  • baked
  • baleful
  • bankrupted
  • barren
  • basically
  • beat
  • beaten
  • benumbed
  • bereft of life
  • bitten the dust
  • bland
  • blank
  • bleak
  • bleary
  • bloodless
  • blooming
  • blunted
  • bodacious
  • boney
  • bony
  • boring
  • bought the farm
  • breathless
  • broken
  • broken-down
  • buried
  • burned-out
  • burnt-out
  • bushed
  • by and large
  • bygone
  • bypast
  • cadaverous
  • callous
  • categoric
  • categorical
  • categorically
  • checked out
  • chiefly
  • chilled
  • classic
  • clean
  • cocainized
  • cold
  • collapsed
  • comatose
  • complete
  • completely
  • confirmed
  • constant
  • consumed
  • consummate
  • copiously
  • crashing
  • cut off
  • damn
  • damned
  • dated
  • deadened
  • deadly
  • deadness
  • death
  • deathly
  • debilitated
  • deceased
  • definite
  • defunct
  • dehydrated
  • demised
  • departed
  • depleted
  • desert
  • desolate
  • dilute
  • diminished
  • direct
  • directly
  • done
  • done for
  • doomed
  • dormant
  • down the line
  • down to the ground
  • downright
  • drained
  • dreadful
  • dried-up
  • droughty
  • drowsy
  • drugged
  • dry
  • due
  • dull
  • dulled
  • dying
  • endangered
  • endless
  • enervate
  • enervated
  • enfeebled
  • enough
  • entire
  • entirely
  • erased
  • eternal
  • even
  • exactly
  • exhausted
  • expended
  • expired
  • extinct
  • extraordinary
  • extreme
  • faded
  • fading
  • fair
  • fallen
  • fallow
  • fast
  • fatal
  • fateful
  • fatigued
  • fell
  • finished
  • flat
  • flat-out
  • flavorless
  • for fair
  • free
  • frightful
  • frigid
  • full
  • fully
  • generally
  • generously
  • genuine
  • ghostlike
  • ghostly
  • gone
  • gone to meet maker
  • gone to reward
  • grave
  • greatly
  • habitual
  • hands down
  • hardscrabble
  • heartily
  • heavy
  • hopeless
  • horrible
  • huge
  • idle
  • imperiled
  • imperilled
  • impoverished
  • in whole
  • inactive
  • inanimate
  • inert
  • infertile
  • inhospitable
  • inoperable
  • inoperative
  • insensate
  • insensible
  • insensitive
  • insipid
  • interrupted
  • inveterate
  • jaded
  • kaput
  • kaputt
  • killer
  • knackered
  • lapsed
  • largely
  • late
  • latent
  • lessened
  • lethal
  • lethargic
  • lifeless
  • lifelessness
  • limp
  • liquidated
  • loggy
  • logy
  • lost
  • low
  • macabre
  • main
  • mainly
  • missing
  • more or less
  • moribund
  • mortal
  • mortality
  • mortuary
  • mostly
  • murderous
  • nipped
  • no more
  • nonexistent
  • nonextant
  • nonfunctional
  • nonfunctioning
  • nonliving
  • not existing
  • nothingness
  • numb
  • numbed
  • obsolete
  • obtunded
  • off
  • offed
  • on the shelf
  • out
  • out of commission
  • out-and-out
  • outright
  • overall
  • overfatigued
  • overtaxed
  • overthrown
  • overworked
  • parched
  • passed away
  • perfect
  • perfectly
  • perished
  • perpetual
  • pestilent
  • phantom
  • plain
  • played out
  • plumb
  • plump
  • pooped
  • poor
  • predominantly
  • predominately
  • primarily
  • principally
  • profound
  • prostrate
  • pure
  • pushing up daisies
  • quiescent
  • quite
  • rainless
  • rank
  • real
  • reduced
  • regular
  • reposing
  • resting in peace
  • right
  • ruined
  • run-down
  • sapped
  • savorless
  • sear
  • senseless
  • sere
  • sheer
  • simple
  • sleep
  • sleepy
  • slow
  • sluggish
  • soundly
  • spectral
  • spent
  • spiritless
  • stark
  • stiff
  • still
  • stillborn
  • stone
  • stone-cold
  • straight
  • straight-out
  • straightly
  • straightway
  • stupefied
  • substantially
  • sunbaked
  • sunk
  • superlative
  • supreme
  • surpassing
  • suspended
  • tapped out
  • tasteless
  • terminated
  • terrible
  • terrific
  • thin
  • thirsty
  • thorough
  • thoroughgoing
  • thoroughly
  • through and through
  • tired
  • to bits
  • to pieces
  • to the hilt
  • to the max
  • torpid
  • total
  • totally
  • unadulterated
  • unalive
  • unalloyed
  • unanimated
  • unconditional
  • unconscious
  • uncultivable
  • undeviatingly
  • undying
  • unfeeling
  • unfertile
  • unflavored
  • uninteresting
  • unmitigated
  • unoccupied
  • unproductive
  • unqualified
  • unqualifiedly
  • unremitting
  • unresponsive
  • unrestricted
  • unsavory
  • untillable
  • unusable
  • unused
  • unworkable
  • used up
  • useless
  • utter
  • utterly
  • vacant
  • vanished
  • vapid
  • veritable
  • very
  • washed-out
  • waste
  • waterless
  • watery
  • weak
  • weakened
  • wearied
  • weary
  • well
  • wholly
  • wide
  • wiped out
  • wooden
  • worn
  • worn to a frazzle
  • worn-out

idle

kaput

  • Noachian
  • Stone Age
  • age-old
  • aged
  • ageing
  • aging
  • all washed up
  • ancient
  • antediluvian
  • antiquated
  • antique
  • archaic
  • atavistic
  • belly up
  • broken
  • burned out
  • bygone
  • cooked
  • dated
  • dateless
  • deactivated
  • dead
  • deadlocked
  • defunct
  • demoded
  • destroyed
  • discarded
  • disused
  • done
  • done for
  • doomed
  • dormant
  • down
  • down and out
  • down for the count
  • down the drain
  • down the tubes
  • endangered
  • erstwhile
  • expired
  • extinct
  • fallow
  • finished
  • floored
  • former
  • fossilized
  • free
  • fusty
  • had it
  • historic
  • historical
  • hoary
  • idle
  • imperiled
  • imperilled
  • inactive
  • ineffective
  • ineffectual
  • inert
  • inoperable
  • inoperative
  • late
  • latent
  • malfunctioning
  • mediaeval
  • medieval
  • moribund
  • mossy
  • moth-eaten
  • musty
  • neolithic
  • nonfunctional
  • nonfunctioning
  • nonoperating
  • nonproductive
  • obsolescent
  • obsolete
  • off
  • old
  • old-fashioned
  • old-time
  • old-world
  • oldfangled
  • on the blink
  • on the fritz
  • on the skids
  • out of business
  • out of circulation
  • out of commission
  • out-of-date
  • outdated
  • outmoded
  • outworn
  • past
  • prehistoric
  • prehistorical
  • retro
  • ruined
  • rusty
  • sunk
  • superannuated
  • totaled
  • unproductive
  • unusable
  • unworkable
  • useless
  • vanished
  • venerable
  • vintage
  • washed up
  • wiped-out

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