English adjective: isolated | |||
| 1. | isolated not close together in time | ||
| Samples | Isolated instances of rebellion. A few stray crumbs. | ||
| Synonyms | stray | ||
| Similar | sporadic | ||
| Antonyms | continual | ||
| 2. | isolated being or feeling set or kept apart from others | ||
| Samples | She felt detached from the group. Could not remain the isolated figure he had been. Thought of herself as alone and separated from the others. Had a set-apart feeling. | ||
| Synonyms | detached, separated, set-apart | ||
| Similar | separate | ||
| Antonyms | joint | ||
| 3. | isolated marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements | ||
| Samples | Little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara. | ||
| Synonyms | disjunct | ||
| Similar | separate | ||
| Antonyms | joint | ||
| 4. | isolated cut off or left behind | ||
| Samples | An isolated pawn. Several stranded fish in a tide pool. Travelers marooned by the blizzard. | ||
| Synonyms | marooned, stranded | ||
| Similar | unaccompanied | ||
| Antonyms | accompanied | ||
| 5. | isolated under forced isolation especially for health reasons | ||
| Samples | A quarantined animal. Isolated patients. | ||
| Synonyms | quarantined | ||
| Similar | segregated, unintegrated | ||
| Antonyms | integrated | ||
| 6. | isolated remote and separate physically or socially | ||
| Samples | Existed over the centuries as a world apart. Preserved because they inhabited a place apart. Tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization. An obscure village. | ||
| Synonyms | apart, obscure | ||
| Similar | unconnected | ||
| Antonyms | connected | ||