shuttered

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adjective

shut·​tered ˈshə-tərd 

1

a

: furnished with shutters

Shuttered double-hung windows and classic clapboard give Thomas Hopkins's design the look of a 19th century Greek Revival house.

—Country Living

—often used in combination

By the coast, Essaouira serves up salty sea winds and seagulls circling its blue-shuttered houses.

—Adekunle Agbetiloye

b

: having closed shutters

… kept the house shuttered throughout the year to maintain a constant temperature …

—Jason W. Selby

… the room was closely shuttered and stuffily hot.

—Colleen McCullough

2

: closed for business

… shuttered factories stand as a testament to the deindustrialization of New England.

—Thomas A. Stewart

… an indoor facility would permit racing at a time when most tracks are shuttered for the winter …

—The New York Times

3

: closed off or off-limits to outsiders

… kept her private life shuttered …

—Neal Ascherson

Some of the nuns she interviews are cloistered, emerging only briefly from a shuttered existence.

—Lise Funderburg

shuttered

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past tense and past participle of shutter entry 2

Examples of shuttered in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

Reopening an already shuttered institution could be much more difficult. — Andrew Stelzer, NPR, 3 Oct. 2026

It's celebrated as an opportunity for southeast Iowa, an area along the Mississippi River that once thrived as a hub for industry but has since suffered from shuttered facilities and dwindled populations. — ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026

It’s celebrated as an opportunity for southeast Iowa, an area along the Mississippi River that once thrived as a hub for industry but has since suffered from shuttered facilities and dwindled populations. — Hannah Fingerhut, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

Developers in Fort Lauderdale are proposing a project with affordable housing, a teacher resource center and a hotel on the site of the recently-shuttered North Fork Elementary. — Austin Horn october 1, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

1788, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Rhymes for shuttered

• uncluttered
• buttered
• cluttered
• fluttered
• muttered
• spluttered
• sputtered
• stuttered
• uttered