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Meaning of 'isolated' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Isolated [ a.]
- Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others.
2 . Isolated [ imp. & p. p.]
- of Isolate

Meaning of 'isolated' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . isolated [ s]
Meaning (1):
- not close together in time
Example in sentence:
  • a few stray crumbs;
  • isolated instances of rebellion
Meaning (2):
- under forced isolation especially for health reasons
Example in sentence:
  • a quarantined animal;
  • isolated patients
Meaning (3):
- cut off or left behind
Example in sentence:
  • an isolated pawn;
  • several stranded fish in a tide pool;
  • travelers marooned by the blizzard
Meaning (4):
- remote and separate physically or socially
Example in sentence:
  • an obscure village;
  • existed over the centuries as a world apart;
  • preserved because they inhabited a place apart;
  • tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization
Meaning (5):
- being or feeling set or kept apart from others
Example in sentence:
  • could not remain the isolated figure he had been;
  • had a set-apart feeling;
  • she felt detached from the group;
  • thought of herself as alone and separated from the others
Meaning (6):
- marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements
Example in sentence:
  • little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara

Nearby Words:

iso- isobar isobaric isobarometric isobathytherm isobathythermic isocephalism isochasm isochasmic isocheim

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