unfarmed

Left without crops

Unfarmed describes land that has not been cultivated or used for agriculture.

The term applies to wild areas never put to agricultural use, or to fields that have been left fallow or abandoned: The unfarmed hillsides returned to scrubland.

Miles of unfarmed prairie stretched to the horizon.

fallow

uncultivated

Not tended or planted

idle · dormant · set-aside · rotation · stubble · neglected · abandoned · unproductive · barren · sterile

pristine

untouched

Not contacted or affected

unplowed · unworked · undeveloped · unaltered · unmodified · intact · preserved · original · unimproved · unmanaged

wild

overgrown

Excessively covered in vegetation

underbrush · weeds · bushes · briar · hedge · copse · shrubbery · reclaimed · feral · verge

ecosystem

biodiversity

Range of life forms

  • habitatOrganism's natural environment
  • floraPlants of a region
  • faunaAnimal life collectively

soil · indigenous · biome · ecology · endemic · grassland · woodland · savanna · wetland · meadow

Categories
Opposites
agricultural cultivation

unfarmedfarmed

Grew crops commercially

cultivated · tilled · planted · agricultural · cropped

Family

farm, farming, farmer, agriculture, farmland, farmed, farmers, farmhouse, farmyard

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G