ISOLATED as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • remote and separate physically or socially
   Synonym(s)
   • apart(p) (what does apart(p) mean?)
   • obscure (what does obscure mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • 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
   Similar To
   • unconnected (what does unconnected mean?)
2. Meaning
   • not close together in time
   Synonym(s)
   • scattered (what does scattered mean?)
   • stray (what does stray mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • isolated instances of rebellion
   • scattered fire
   • a stray bullet grazed his thigh
   Similar To
   • sporadic (what does sporadic mean?)
3. Meaning
   • under forced isolation especially for health reasons
   Synonym(s)
   • quarantined (what does quarantined mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • a quarantined animal
   • isolated patients
   Similar To
   • segregated (what does segregated mean?)
   • unintegrated (what does unintegrated mean?)
4. Meaning
   • being or feeling set or kept apart from others
   Synonym(s)
   • detached (what does detached mean?)
   • separated (what does separated mean?)
   • set-apart (what does set-apart mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • 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
   Similar To
   • separate (what does separate mean?)
5. Meaning
   • marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements
   Synonym(s)
   • disjunct (what does disjunct mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara- Scientific Monthly
   Similar To
   • separate (what does separate mean?)
6. Meaning
   • cut off or left behind
   Synonym(s)
   • marooned (what does marooned mean?)
   • stranded (what does stranded mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • an isolated pawn
   • several stranded fish in a tide pool
   • travelers marooned by the blizzard
   Similar To
   • unaccompanied (what does unaccompanied mean?)