not close together in time; isolated instances of rebellion; a few stray crumbs
[ Syn: stray ]
being or feeling set or kept apart from others; she felt detached from the group; could not remain the isolated figure he had been- Sherwood Anderson; thought of herself as alone and separated from the others; had a set-apart feeling
marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements; little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara- Scientific Monthly
[ Syn: disjunct ]
cut off or left behind; an isolated pawn; several stranded fish in a tide pool; travelers marooned by the blizzard
under forced isolation especially for health reasons; a quarantined animal; isolated patients
[ Syn: quarantined ]
remote and separate physically or socially; existed over the centuries as a world apart; preserved because they inhabited a place apart- W.H.Hudson; tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization; an obscure village