'Sheltered' definitions:
Definition of 'sheltered'
From: WordNet
adjective
Protected from danger or bad weather; "a sheltered harbor"
Definition of 'Sheltered'
From: GCIDE
- Shelter \Shel"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sheltered; p. pr. & vb. n. Sheltering.]
- 1. To be a shelter for; to provide with a shelter; to cover from injury or annoyance; to shield; to protect. [1913 Webster]
- Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- You have no convents . . . in which such persons may be received and sheltered. --Southey. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To screen or cover from notice; to disguise. [1913 Webster]
- In vain I strove to cheek my growing flame, Or shelter passion under friendship's name. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To betake to cover, or to a safe place; -- used reflexively. [1913 Webster]
- They sheltered themselves under a rock. --Abp. Abbot. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sheltered'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- armed,
- at rest,
- calm,
- cloaked,
- cloistered,
- cool,
- copyrighted,
- covered,
- defended,
- dwindling,
- ebbing,
- even-tenored,
- guarded,
- halcyon,
- hushed,
- impassive,
- invulnerable,
- isolated,
- moldering,
- pacific,
- patented,
- peaceable,
- peaceful,
- placid,
- policed,
- protected,
- quiescent,
- quiet,
- reposeful,
- reposing,
- restful,
- resting,
- safe,
- safeguarded,
- screened,
- secluded,
- sequestered,
- sequestrated,
- shielded,
- smooth,
- still,
- still as death,
- stillish,
- stilly,
- stoic,
- stolid,
- subsiding,
- tranquil,
- unagitated,
- undisturbed,
- unmoved,
- unperturbed,
- unruffled,
- unstirring,
- untroubled,
- waning