English to English
adjective
- Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others.
source: Webster 1913
adjective satellite
- not close together in time
Isolated instances of rebellion.
A few stray crumbs.
source: WordNet 3.0
- being or feeling set or kept apart from others
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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- cut off or left behind
An isolated pawn.
Several stranded fish in a tide pool.
Travelers marooned by the blizzard.
source: WordNet 3.0
- under forced isolation especially for health reasons
A quarantined animal.
Isolated patients.
source: WordNet 3.0
- remote and separate physically or socially
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.
source: WordNet 3.0
