Isolated
[adj] 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"
[adj] not close together in time; "isolated instances of rebellion"; "scattered fire"; "a stray bullet grazed his thigh"
[adj] under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a quarantined animal"; "isolated patients"
[adj] 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"
[adj] 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
[adj] cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard"
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Synonyms
apart(p), detached, disjunct, marooned, obscure, quarantined, scattered, segregated, separate, separated, set-apart, sporadic, stranded, stray, unaccompanied, unconnected, unintegrated
Related Terms
abandoned, alien, alienated, alone, aloof, anchoretical, anomalous, anonymous, apart, archipelagian, archipelagic, at rest, calm, cloistered, closet, companionless, cool, cordoned, cordoned off, cut off, deserted, detached, disarticulated, disconnected, d