| Main Entry: | desert |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | barren, uncultivated |
Synonyms: |
arid, bare, desolate, infertile, lonely, solitary, sterile, uninhabited, unproductive, untilled, waste, wild |
| Notes: | that impoverished stretch of sand called a desert can only afford one 's'; that rich gooey extra thing at the end of the meal called a dessert indulges in two of them |
Antonyms: |
cultivated, fertile, productive |
| Main Entry: | fallow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inactive |
Synonyms: |
dormant, idle, inert, neglected, quiescent, resting, slack, uncultivated, undeveloped, unplanted, unplowed, unproductive, unseeded, untilled, unused, vacant, virgin |
Antonyms: |
active, cultivated, developed, used |
| Main Entry: | uncultivated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not cultivated |
Synonyms: |
arid, barbaric, barbarous, coarse, crass, crude, fallow, lowbrow, rough, rude, savage, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, undeveloped, unfarmed, unplowed, untilled, wild |
Antonyms: |
cultivated |