ISOLATED

isolated, apart(p), obscure

(adjective) 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”

isolated, stray

(adjective) not close together in time; “isolated instances of rebellion”; “a few stray crumbs”

isolated, quarantined

(adjective) under forced isolation especially for health reasons; “a quarantined animal”; “isolated patients”

detached, isolated, separated, set-apart

(adjective) 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”

disjunct, isolated

(adjective) 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

isolated, marooned, stranded

(adjective) cut off or left behind; “an isolated pawn”; “several stranded fish in a tide pool”; “travelers marooned by the blizzard”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Adjective

isolated (comparative more isolated, superlative most isolated)

Placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation.

(chess, of a pawn) Such that no pawn of the same color is in an adjacent file.

(meteorology, of precipitation) affecting 10 percent to 20 percent of a forecast zone.

(medicine) Which has been extracted from the organism.

Verb

isolated

simple past tense and past participle of isolate

Anagrams

• altoside, diastole, diolates, elastoid, sodalite, solidate

Source: Wiktionary

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I"so*la`ted, a.

Definition: Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others. Isolated point of a curve. (Geom.) See Acnode.

ISOLATE

I"so*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Isolated; p. pr. & vb. n. Isolating.] Etym: [It. isolato, p. p. of isolare to isolate, fr. isola island, L. insula. See 2d Isle, and cf. Insulate.]

1. To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others. Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts. Bp. Warburton.

2. (Elec.)

Definition: To insulate. See Insulate.

3. (Chem.)

Definition: To separate from all foreign substances; to make pure; to obtain in a free state.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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