isolated | ||
1. | [ adjective ] not close together in time | |
Synonyms: | stray scattered | |
Examples: | "isolated instances of rebellion" "scattered fire" "a stray bullet grazed his thigh" |
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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" |
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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" |
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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 |
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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" |
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Related terms: | unaccompanied | |
6. | [ adjective ] under forced isolation especially for health reasons | |
Synonyms: | quarantined | |
Examples: | "a quarantined animal" "isolated patients" |
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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" |
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Related terms: | unconnected | |
Similar spelling: |
isolate islet isolation isolating |