Fallow

Noun

 * 1)  Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
 * 2)  Uncultivated land.
 * 3)  An area of fallow land.

Adjective
fallow


 * 1)  Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
 * 2) Inactive; undeveloped.

Derived terms

 * apple-fallow
 * fallow chat
 * fallow deer
 * fallow finch
 * fallowness
 * lay fallow
 * lie fallow

Verb

 * 1)  To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.

Derived terms

 * fallowed
 * fallowing
 * re-fallow
 * thry-fallow
 * trifallow
 * twifallow, twyfallow

Adjective

 * 1) A pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.

Related terms

 * fallow deer

Adverbs for Fallow
aridly; unfruitfully; unprofitably; naturally; carelessly; shiftlessly; passively; inactively; unproductively; purposely; improvidently; rudimentally; roughly; calmly; tentatively; temporarily; deliberately; advisedly; provisionally; wisely.

Thesaurus
acarpous, achromatic, achromic, anemic, arable land, arid, ashen, ashy, at leisure, at liberty, at loose ends, aureate, auric, available, backset, barnyard, barren, barton, beige, bled white, bloodless, buff, buff-yellow, cadaverous, canary, canary-yellow, cattle ranch, celibate, chicken farm, childless, chloranemic, citron, citron-yellow, collective farm, colorless, cotton plantation, cream, creamy, croft, cultivate, culture, cut, dairy farm, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, delve, demesne, demesne farm, desert, desolate, dig, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, disengaged, drained, dress, dried-up, dry, dry farm, dude ranch, dull, ecru, etiolated, exhausted, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, factory farm, faded, faint, farm, farmery, farmhold, farmland, farmplace, farmstead, farmyard, fertilize, flat, flaxen, force, free, fruit farm, fruitless, fur farm, gaunt, gelded, ghastly, gilded, gilt, gold, gold-colored, golden, grain farm, grange, grassland, gray, hacienda, haggard, harrow, hoe, homecroft, homefarm, homestead, hueless, hypochromic, idle, impotent, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, issueless, jejune, jobless, kibbutz, kolkhoz, lackluster, leached, leaden, leisure, leisured, lemon, lemon-yellow, list, livid, location, lumpen, lurid, lusterless, luteolous, lutescent, mains, manor farm, mat, mealy, menopausal, muddy, mulch, neutral, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, off, off duty, off work, or, orchard, otiose, out of employ, out of harness, out of work, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasture, pasty, pen, plantation, plow, poultry farm, primrose, primrose-colored, primrose-yellow, prune, rake, ranch, rancheria, rancho, saffron, saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sallow, sand-colored, sandy, sheep farm, sickly, sine prole, spade, station, steading, sterile, stock farm, straw, straw-colored, sucked dry, tallow-faced, teemless, thin, thin out, till, till the soil, toft, toneless, truck farm, uncolored, uncultivated, unemployable, unemployed, unfertile, unfruitful, unoccupied, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unsown, untilled, virgin, wan, washed-out, waste, wasted, waxen, weak, weed, weed out, whey-faced, white, without issue, work, xanthic, xanthous, yellow, yellowish

Pronunciation

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 * ,, {{SAMPA|/"f{loU/}}