Isolated - Definition

adj 1: not close together in time; "isolated instances of
rebellion"; "a few stray crumbs" [syn: isolated,
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" [syn: detached, isolated, 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
[syn: disjunct, isolated]
4: cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded
fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard"
[syn: isolated, marooned, stranded]
5: under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a
quarantined animal"; "isolated patients" [syn: isolated,
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"
[syn: apart(p), isolated, obscure]