Adjective: fallow
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more fallow |
| Superlative | most fallow |
Sample Sentences
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a fallow period in one's career
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After two more homeland hits and a fallow two years, Pickettywitch was parked and junked. [1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 316:]
Adjectives inflected like fallow
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. [Alt: A photograph of a ploughed field.]
2. From Middle English falwe, from Old English fealh, fealg (“fallow land”), from Proto-West Germanic *falgu (compare Saterland Frisian Falge, West Frisian falig, felling, Dutch valg, German Felge), from Proto-Indo-European *polḱéh₂ (“arable land”) (compare Gaulish olca, Russian полоса́ (polosá)).
Verbs referencing "fallow"
Irish Adjectives
liath, French Adjectives
fauve, Spanish Adjectives
overo, Italian Adjectives
falbo, Catalan Adjectives
falb, Galician Adjectives
fouvo, Galician Adjectives
fouveiro.