shuttered

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adjective

shut·​tered ˈshə-tərd 

1

a

: furnished with shutters

Shuttered double-hung windows and classic clapboard give Thomas Hopkins's design the look of a 19th century Greek Revival house.

—Country Living

—often used in combination

By the coast, Essaouira serves up salty sea winds and seagulls circling its blue-shuttered houses.

—Adekunle Agbetiloye

b

: having closed shutters

… kept the house shuttered throughout the year to maintain a constant temperature …

—Jason W. Selby

… the room was closely shuttered and stuffily hot.

—Colleen McCullough

2

: closed for business

… shuttered factories stand as a testament to the deindustrialization of New England.

—Thomas A. Stewart

… an indoor facility would permit racing at a time when most tracks are shuttered for the winter …

—The New York Times

3

: closed off or off-limits to outsiders

… kept her private life shuttered …

—Neal Ascherson

Some of the nuns she interviews are cloistered, emerging only briefly from a shuttered existence.

—Lise Funderburg

shuttered

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past tense and past participle of shutter entry 2

Examples of shuttered in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

But in 2020, a bankruptcy court ruled that the company could abandon its shuttered Vernon plant, leaving the cleanup to California taxpayers. — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026

The Grove Park Foundation has begun restoring the long-shuttered Grove Theatre along Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway, a milestone in a nearly 10-year journey to revitalize the historic structure. — Savannah Sicurella, AJC.com, 6 Nov. 2026

The ad showed a lectern with no one behind it at the site of a massive warehouse fire from last summer, the homeless epicenter of Skid Row and shuttered malls and storefronts. — Michael R. Blood, Chicago Tribune, 5 Nov. 2026

The aquarium said there was no way to know about the chronic conditions before the whales were rescued from the shuttered Marineland theme park in Canada. — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

1788, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Rhymes for shuttered

• uncluttered
• buttered
• cluttered
• fluttered
• muttered
• spluttered
• sputtered
• stuttered
• uttered