SHELTERED Synonyms: 58 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in secluded

screened or sequestered from view moored the sailboat in a sheltered cove

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sheltered

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verb

past tense of shelter

as in protected

to be or provide a shelter for the abandoned barn shelters a colony of stray cats

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exposed

as in housed

to provide with living quarters or shelter sheltered the troops in tents until permanent barracks could be built

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Recent Examples of sheltered

Adjective

After her father’s untimely death, this Carrie, who grew up in a sheltered, cult-like environment, gets to interact with the outside world for the first time. — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026 This rugged island has cliff paths leading to the old pilot lookout, and sheltered coves. — Natasha Langan, TheWeek, 29 Sep. 2026 The add-on tent delivers extra sheltered space that can be used to house additional sleepers or simply as a covered dining area or bathroom/privacy tent. — New Atlas, 29 Sep. 2026 The finished walkout lower level opens to the pool with a sheltered area beneath the awning and a dedicated home gym. — Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2026 Its park and sheltered spaces will inevitably attract uses its designers and administrators did not anticipate. — Sam Lubell, Curbed, 21 Sep. 2026 Houses that once sheltered families have been reduced to concrete and rubble. — Diego Ibarra Sánchez, NPR, 19 Sep. 2026 This is life in the NFL, but the Lions were living a sheltered one for years. — Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026 Although the film never gives its divisions a name — much of it unfolds through Maya’s sheltered perspective — its setting provides the perfect symbolism for a nation built on discrimination. — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026

Verb

Thousands sheltered on Monday in evacuation centres in the Thai capital, parts of it still flooded after havoc brought by intense weekend rain, while swelling reservoirs in an eastern province triggered orders for more to leave their homes. — Reuters, NBC news, 28 Sep. 2026 The new 50% tariffs on $20 billion of Canadian goods will hammer many small- and medium-sized businesses, including family firms, that up to this point have been largely sheltered from the trade war. — Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 25 Sep. 2026 That, even if someone else read the words, perhaps some part of it could be withheld, could be sheltered. — Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026 Rounding out their trio is Hazel (Kennedi Reece), a sweet, naive young woman, completely sheltered by her conservative upbringing but determined to follow her Michelle Obama dreams. — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 24 Sep. 2026 Hamas leaders were being sheltered in Qatar—but only at the insistence of Israel and the United States. — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026 On campus, many people remain doubtful that Northwestern’s athletics and academic missions are aligned, especially as football becomes more and more of a business sheltered by a university. — Geraldo L. Cadava, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2026 Gang members killed people sheltered at a school and a church, using bodies as barricades as police and civilians battled them for several hours. — ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026 The 21-year-old played nine games for the Rangers and didn’t look out of place, though Sullivan sheltered him in his minutes. — Peter Baugh, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sheltered

Adjective

The final, most remote destination in my journey is Clayoquot Wilderness Lodge, a secluded, off-grid glamping outpost accessible only by floatplane or boat.

— Adrienne Matei, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Oct. 2026
In Russia, fish processing workers were held captive in secluded company towns or stuck on ships far from shore.

— Ian Urbina, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of secluded

Verb

The Roadless Rule was adopted in 2001 after years of public debate over how much of the country’s remaining undeveloped national forest land should be protected from roads and commercial development.

— Christiana Freitag, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2026
According to one poll, 30 percent of women feel unsafe, not protected.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of protected

Verb

Related Stories Set in the Iranian village of Goorankesh, housed in an incredibly arid and seemingly inhospitable region, the film follows schoolteacher Davoud Soulan (Mohammad Rahimi), whose job lies on precarious foundations.

— Kambole Campbell, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026
But the building hasn’t housed anyone since early 2025, when SHO moved everyone out due to deteriorating building conditions.

— Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of housed

Adjective

Eight venues are interconnected by hidden passageways, secret entrances, and whimsical performances.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Oct. 2026
The crust of the tangible world peels away, and hidden spiritual and moral realities become prominent and unmistakable.

— Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of hidden

Verb

That would mean the new city, rather than the county, would have to identify where its share of the housing could be accommodated and establish the zoning and policies needed to allow it.

— Haley Parsley, Sacbee.com, 30 Sep. 2026
First, the law takes its time in responding to new technologies, figuring that new tools can be accommodated within existing ideas, rules, and doctrines.

— Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of accommodated

Verb

The career included its hiccups, a not-yet-ready-for-primetime quarterback thrust into a starting role as a freshman, an on-campus protest in which the football team was lodged and, well, not as many wins as anyone involved would have liked.

— Sam McDowell October 9, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2026
Thompson lodged criticisms for Jones’ Silicon Valley donors, shifting policy positions and associations with healthcare companies that were fined for denying care.

— Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2026

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