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Isolated   /ˈaɪsəlˌeɪtəd/  /ˈaɪsəlˌeɪtɪd/   Listen
Isolated

adjective
1.
Not close together in time.  Synonym: stray.  "A few stray crumbs"
2.
Being or feeling set or kept apart from others.  Synonyms: detached, separated, set-apart.  "Could not remain the isolated figure he had been" , "Thought of herself as alone and separated from the others" , "Had a set-apart feeling"
3.
Marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements.  Synonym: disjunct.
4.
Cut off or left behind.  Synonyms: marooned, stranded.  "Several stranded fish in a tide pool" , "Travelers marooned by the blizzard"
5.
Under forced isolation especially for health reasons.  Synonym: quarantined.  "Isolated patients"
6.
Remote and separate physically or socially.  Synonyms: apart, obscure.  "Preserved because they inhabited a place apart" , "Tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization" , "An obscure village"


Isolate

verb
(past & past part. isolated; pres. part. isolating)
1.
Place or set apart.  Synonym: insulate.
2.
Obtain in pure form.
3.
Set apart from others.  Synonyms: keep apart, sequester, sequestrate, set apart.
4.
Separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them.



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"Isolated" Quotes from Famous Books



... Loring's health, or Miss Loring's entreaties had interfered with both those plans. He could not desert a young lady on an isolated plantation with only the slaves about her, and a partial paralytic to care for, especially when all the most capable physicians were at military posts, and no one ...
— The Bondwoman • Marah Ellis Ryan
... trials of a sort which might not easily be tempered by something like industry on his own part. He was frankly idle. He loved better than simple work the precarious excitement of prospecting—an occupation which, except in isolated and accidental instances, cannot be pursued to any good save with the aid of ...
— A Prairie Infanta • Eva Wilder Brodhead
... is an individual isolated in the midst of society, to restrain the impulses of the people toward license and the propensities of administrators to arbitrariness. He is directly subject to the legislative power, to the people; he is a single man, resisting the combined attack ...
— Simon Bolivar, the Liberator • Guillermo A. Sherwell
... discussing their arrangements, while the refulgent day was everywhere declaring itself, though as yet no sound of the far-off world could reach this isolated garden. Nor was there any direct sunshine falling into it; but a beautiful warmth of color now shone on the young green of the elms and chestnuts and hawthorns, and on one or two tall-branching, trembling poplars just coming into leaf; while ...
— Prince Fortunatus • William Black
... of Viseo and Grand Master of the order of Christ, whose enlarged mind first planned the fitting out of maritime expeditions for discovery, and by the imitation of whose example all subsequent discoveries have been accomplished. Every thing of the kind before his time was isolated or accidental, and every subsequent attempt has been pursued on scientific or known principles, which he invented and established. Although America was discovered by Columbus, in the service of Spain, some years before the Portuguese were able to accomplish their long sought route ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. II • Robert Kerr


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