isolated

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isolated Definition

• (s) not close together in time; "isolated instances of rebellion"; "scattered fire"; "a stray bullet grazed his thigh"
• (s) 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"
• (s) 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
• (s) cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard"
• (s) under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a quarantined animal"; "isolated patients"
• (s) 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"

isolated Synonyms

• apart(p)
• detached
• disjunct
• isolated
• marooned
• obscure
• quarantined
• scattered
• separated
• set-apart
• stranded
• stray