shelterless

Lacking any cover

Without shelter or protection from the elements.

The word describes those who lack housing or any covering from weather: The shelterless wandered the streets during the storm.

It can extend figuratively to describe vulnerability or exposure: shelterless against criticism.

homeless

unhoused

Lacking stable housing

displacedShifted from proper location
rooflessHaving no overhead covering
vagrantHomeless itinerant person

transient · drifter · wanderer · itinerant · squatter · rootless · dispossessed · outcast · wayfarer · vagabond

vulnerable

defenseless

Without means to resist

fragileEasily broken or damaged
helplessUnable to act independently
endangeredAt risk of extinction

at-risk · precarious · unshielded · weak · threatened · imperiled · abandoned · forsaken · forgotten · neglected

exposed

unprotected

Without safeguard or shield

bareLacking any covering
openNot closed
uncoveredMade visible or known

outdoors · weather-beaten · windblown · sunburned · chilled · soaked · elements · outside · unshaded · blistered

destitute

impoverished

Extremely lacking in money

pennilessCompletely without money
indigentExtremely poor, lacking necessities
needyWanting in essentials

deprived · poor · pauperized · impecunious · bankrupt · beggarly · poverty-stricken · resourceless · pennilessness · hardship

Categories

vulnerabilityvulnerability, vulnerable, defenselessness, defenseless, helplessness

Opposites

protection/housing status

shelterlesssheltered

Kept safe from harm

housed · covered · roofed · protected · homed

security/vulnerability

shelterlessprotected

Kept from harm

secure · safe · shielded · safeguarded · defended

Family

shelter, sheltered, shelters, sheltering, unsheltered, shelterer, shelterers

Familiarity: Top 500,000
Profile: Used worldwide · Timeless · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G