Dictionary

unsheltered en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + sheltered.

Meanings

1. Without shelter; exposed.
   • This platform was used by the owning company's trains, but those of the District, and later of the Piccadilly Line, were relegated to the other platform, virtually devoid of covering, and accessible only by an unsheltered path passing behind the buffer stops. 1952 March, R. K. Kirkland, “The Railways of Uxbridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:
2. Without being sheltered against.
   • The rain came down upon my head Unshelter’d—and the heavy wind Was giantlike—so thou, my mind!— […] 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:

Forms

Deriveds

unshelteredness

Translations (10)

sh неза̀штӣћен (without shelter) · pt desabrigado (without shelter) · ga gan foscadh (without shelter) · sh nezàštīćen (without shelter) · ga sceirdiúil (without shelter) · ga aineascair (without shelter) · fr inabrité (without shelter) · ga gan fothain (without shelter) · hu hajléktalan (without shelter) · ga feidheartha (without shelter)