isolated meaning and definition

ISOLATED adjective

Definition of isolated (adjective)

1. not close together in time
   • "isolated instances of rebellion"; "a few stray crumbs"
   • synonyms: stray
2. 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"
   • synonyms: detached, separated, set-apart
3. 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
   • synonyms: disjunct
4. cut off or left behind
   • "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard"
   • synonyms: marooned, stranded
5. under forced isolation especially for health reasons
   • "a quarantined animal"; "isolated patients"
   • synonyms: quarantined
6. 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"
   • synonyms: apart, obscure