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fallow

adjective

1 fallow farmland:

uncultivated, unploughed, untilled, unplanted, unsown, unseeded, unused, undeveloped, dormant, resting, empty, bare, virgin;

neglected, untended, unmaintained, unmanaged.

▷antonyms cultivated.

2 trading is set to emerge from a fallow period:

inactive, dormant, quiet, slack, slow, slow-moving, flat, idle, inert, static, stagnant, depressed;

barren, unproductive, unfruitful.

▷antonyms busy.

fallow (1) Oxford Dictionary of English