isolated (adj.)

  1. not close together in time; isolated instances of rebellion; a few stray crumbs

    [ Syn: stray ]

  2. 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

    [ Syn: detached , separated , set-apart ]

  3. 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 ]

  4. cut off or left behind; an isolated pawn; several stranded fish in a tide pool; travelers marooned by the blizzard

    [ Syn: marooned , stranded ]

  5. under forced isolation especially for health reasons; a quarantined animal; isolated patients

    [ Syn: quarantined ]

  6. 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

    [ Syn: apart , obscure ]

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