unsown

Without scattered seeds

Unsown describes land or fields that have not been planted with seeds: The unsown acres lay fallow through spring.

The word appears in agricultural contexts and occasionally in figurative use about untapped potential or opportunities not yet cultivated.

fallow

uncultivated

Not tended or planted

unseeded · rotation · tillage · arable · field · soil · earth · land · agronomy · rejuvenation

neglected

abandoned

Left behind completely

ignored · unattended · uncared-for · derelict · unmaintained · lapsed · untended · overgrown · wild · deteriorated

wild

virgin

One sexually inexperienced

native · unmanaged · wilderness · raw · unfarmed · unimproved · uncleared · scrubland · prairie · meadow

potential

untapped

Not yet utilized

promise · possibility · undeveloped · budding · nascent · embryonic · incipient · emerging · prospect · capability

barren

infertile

Unable to produce offspring

lifeless · bleak · desolate · arid · parched · impoverished · unyielding · stark · void · empty

Opposites
agricultural state

unsownsown

Scattered for cultivation

planted · seeded · cultivated · germinating · broadcast

cultivation/development

unsowncultivated

Improved through nurture

planted · tended · farmed · worked · productive

Family

sow, sown, sowing, sowed, sower, sowers, resow, resown, resowed

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