unsheltered

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ sheltered.

Adjective

unsheltered (comparative more unsheltered, superlative most unsheltered)

  1. Without shelter; exposed.
    • 1952 March, R. K. Kirkland, “The Railways of Uxbridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:
      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.
  2. Without being sheltered against.
    • 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
      The rain came down upon my head
      Unshelter’d—and the heavy wind
      Was giantlike—so thou, my mind!— […]

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