isolated

Verb

• place or set apart
  • "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates"
• obtain in pure form
• set apart from others
• separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them
• simple past and past participle of isolate

Adjective Satellite

• not close together in time
  • "isolated instances of rebellion"
• being or feeling set or kept apart from others; ; - Sherwood Anderson
  • "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"
• marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements; - Scientific Monthly
  • "little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara"
• cut off or left behind
  • "an isolated pawn"
• under forced isolation especially for health reasons
  • "isolated patients"
• remote and separate physically or socially; ; - W.H.Hudson
  • "tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization"

Adj

• Placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation.
• Happening or occurring only once.
• Such that no pawn of the same color is in an adjacent file.
• Affecting ten to twenty percent of a forecast zone.
• Which has been extracted from the organism.
• Of a condition or abnormality: occurring in the absence of associated conditions or abnormalities.
• Minimal with respect to inclusion (among associated primes).

Examples

• an isolated occurrence
• an isolated tree in the mountains
• isolated case

Synonyms

apart, detached, disjunct, insulate, isolate, keep apart, marooned, obscure, quarantined, separated, sequester, sequestrate, set apart, set-apart, stranded, stray

Antonyms

embedded

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