isolated
1. [ adjective ] not close together in time
Synonyms: stray scattered
Examples:

"isolated instances of rebellion" "scattered fire" "a stray bullet grazed his thigh"

Related terms: sporadic
2. [ adjective ] being or feeling set or kept apart from others
Synonyms: separated detached set-apart
Examples:

"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"

Related terms: separate
3. [ adjective ] being or feeling set or kept apart from others
Synonyms: separated detached set-apart
Examples:

"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"

Related terms: separate
4. [ adjective ] marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements
Synonyms: disjunct
Examples:

"little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara"- Scientific Monthly

Related terms: separate
5. [ adjective ] cut off or left behind
Synonyms: stranded marooned
Examples:

"an isolated pawn" "several stranded fish in a tide pool" "travelers marooned by the blizzard"

Related terms: unaccompanied
6. [ adjective ] under forced isolation especially for health reasons
Synonyms: quarantined
Examples:

"a quarantined animal" "isolated patients"

Related terms: segregated
7. [ adjective ] remote and separate physically or socially
Synonyms: apart obscure
Examples:

"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"

Related terms: unconnected
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