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Sheltered vs Sweltered - What's the difference?

sheltered | sweltered |

As verbs the difference between sheltered and sweltered

is that sheltered is past tense of shelter while sweltered is past tense of swelter.

As an adjective sheltered

is protected, as from wind or weather.

sheltered

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Protected, as from wind or weather.
  • :The boat was much safer, during the storm, in the sheltered cove.
  • (Of a person) who grew up being overprotected by parents or other guardians; often implies a lack of social skills, worldly experience, etc.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (shelter)

    • sweltered

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (swelter)

    • swelter

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To suffer terribly from intense heat.
    • (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
  • To perspire greatly from heat.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Intense heat.
    • The summer swelter did not relent until late in September, most years.

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