Protected, as from wind or weather.
Used in a Sentence
sheltered
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for sheltered.
Editorial note
The umbrella is actually not much use except when you are just walking from one sheltered area to another, and don't need to actually do anything in the rain.
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Quick take
Protected, as from wind or weather.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of sheltered gathered in one view.
(sociology) (Of a person) who grew up being overprotected by parents or other guardians; often implies a lack of social skills or worldly experience.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for sheltered.
adjective
Protected, as from wind or weather.
adjective
(sociology) (Of a person) who grew up being overprotected by parents or other guardians; often implies a lack of social skills or worldly experience.
Example sentences
The umbrella is actually not much use except when you are just walking from one sheltered area to another, and don't need to actually do anything in the rain.
Really amazing and eye-opening, especially at my age of being relatively sheltered in my childhood mostly in the northeast USA.
Often it's too easy to get sheltered off into your own little Ruby/Node/Python/whatever community and not talk to other people.
That temperature made me think that humans could survive there if only they were sheltered from the vacuum and radiation of space.
The author starts and ends with saying that these are sheltered people who had no idea about what was in, or popular.
And now the vents are in the thermodynamically opposite place they should be, and simultaneously sheltered from crosswind by the gumdrop shape?
I'm afraid you might be too sheltered to have anything approaching an objective view on the matter.
Tax-sheltered vehicles such as IRAs and 401Ks already exist specifically for retirement.
People who think words can't be dangerous, especially for a 10 year old, seem likely to me to be leading sheltered and confined lives.
Naturally Wechat has also been sheltered from competition by the great firewall.
Did you have a privileged/sheltered life or was it rough?
Yet there was a crucial hole in the reforms: they largely sheltered older workers, so that they could retire on broadly the same terms as before.
Quote examples
I wonder what sort of sheltered life you have lived to think earning 100k+ anywhere is "awful".
I think I agree with the sentiment, but your per shelter example is a poor one, it should be "per person sheltered".
There seems to be this idea among office workers that the M-F, 9-5 "grind" of cube-life are the most terrible conditions humans have ever lived through, and it shows a laughably sheltered viewpoint.
On the other hand, bad decisions bundled up and hidden in collateralized debt obligations sheltered these bad decisions until the problem blew up and introduced the world to the phrase "too big to fail".
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use sheltered in a sentence?
The umbrella is actually not much use except when you are just walking from one sheltered area to another, and don't need to actually do anything in the rain.
What does sheltered mean?
Protected, as from wind or weather.
What part of speech is sheltered?
sheltered is commonly used as adjective.