Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun fallow

1 sense of fallow

Sense 1
fallow -- (cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons)
       => cultivated land, farmland, plowland, ploughland, tilled land, tillage, tilth -- (arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops)

Antonyms of adj fallow

2 senses of fallow

Sense 1
fallow -- (left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season; "fallow farmland")

INDIRECT (VIA unplowed) -> plowed, ploughed -- ((of farmland) broken and turned over with a plow; "plowed fields")

Sense 2
fallow -- (undeveloped but potentially useful; "a fallow gold market")

INDIRECT (VIA unexploited) -> exploited -- (developed or used to greatest advantage)

Similarity of adj fallow

2 senses of fallow

Sense 1
fallow -- (left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season; "fallow farmland")
       => unplowed (vs. plowed), unploughed, unbroken -- ((of farmland) not plowed; "unplowed fields"; "unbroken land")

Sense 2
fallow -- (undeveloped but potentially useful; "a fallow gold market")
       => unexploited (vs. exploited), undeveloped -- (undeveloped or unused; "vast unexploited (or undeveloped) natural resources"; "taxes on undeveloped lots are low")

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