'Isolated' definitions:
Definition of 'isolated'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Not close together in time; "isolated instances of rebellion"; "a few stray crumbs" [syn: isolated, stray]
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" [syn: detached, isolated, separated, set- apart]
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 [syn: disjunct, isolated]
adjective
Cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard" [syn: isolated, marooned, stranded]
adjective
Under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a quarantined animal"; "isolated patients" [syn: isolated, quarantined]
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" [syn: apart(p), isolated, obscure]
Definition of 'Isolated'
From: GCIDE
- Isolate \I"so*late\ ([imac]"s[-o]*l[=a]t or [imac]s"[-o]*l[=a]t; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Isolated ([imac]"s[-o]*l[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Isolating ([imac]"s[-o]*l[=a]`t[i^]ng).] [It. isolato, p. p. of isolare to isolate, fr. isola island, L. insula. See 2d Isle, and cf. Insulate.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others; as, to isolate an infected person from others; to isolate the troublemakers in a classroom. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts. --Bp. Warburton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Elec.) To insulate. See Insulate. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Chem.) To separate (a substance) from all foreign substances; to make pure; to obtain in a free state; as, to isolate the desired product from a reaction mixture. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- 4. (Microbiol.) To obtain a culture of a microorganism in pure form (from a complex mixture); as, to isolate Eschericia coli from a patient's blood. [PJC]
Definition of 'Isolated'
From: GCIDE
- Isolated \I"so*la`ted\ ([imac]"s[-o]*l[=a]`t[e^]d), a. Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others. [1913 Webster]
- Isolated point of a curve. (Geom.) See Acnode. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'isolated'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandoned,
- alien,
- alienated,
- alone,
- aloof,
- anchoretical,
- anomalous,
- anonymous,
- apart,
- archipelagian,
- archipelagic,
- at rest,
- calm,
- cloistered,
- closet,
- companionless,
- cool,
- cordoned,
- cordoned off,
- cut off,
- deserted,
- detached,
- disarticulated,
- disconnected,
- discrete,
- disengaged,
- disjoined,
- disjoint,
- disjointed,
- disjunct,
- dislocated,
- dispersed,
- disrelated,
- dissociated,
- disunited,
- divided,
- divorced,
- dwindling,
- ebbing,
- estranged,
- even-tenored,
- exceptional,
- excluded,
- exotic,
- extraneous,
- foreign,
- forlorn,
- forsaken,
- friendless,
- halcyon,
- hermitical,
- hidden,
- homeless,
- hushed,
- impassive,
- in a backwater,
- incognito,
- incommensurable,
- incomparable,
- independent,
- individual,
- inmost,
- innermost,
- insular,
- insulated,
- interior,
- intimate,
- inward,
- irrelative,
- island,
- island-dotted,
- islanded,
- islandish,
- islandlike,
- islandy,
- isleted,
- isolate,
- kithless,
- lone,
- lonely,
- lonesome,
- moldering,
- monastic,
- other,
- out-of-the-way,
- out-of-the-world,
- outlandish,
- pacific,
- particular,
- peaceable,
- peaceful,
- personal,
- placid,
- private,
- privy,
- quarantined,
- quiescent,
- quiet,
- remote,
- removed,
- reposeful,
- reposing,
- restful,
- resting,
- retired,
- rootless,
- roped off,
- scattered,
- seagirt,
- sealed off,
- secluded,
- secret,
- segregate,
- segregated,
- separate,
- separated,
- sequestered,
- sequestrated,
- set apart,
- sheltered,
- shut off,
- single,
- single-handed,
- singular,
- smooth,
- solitary,
- solo,
- special,
- still,
- still as death,
- stillish,
- stilly,
- stoic,
- stolid,
- stranded,
- strange,
- subsiding,
- tranquil,
- unabetted,
- unaccompanied,
- unaffiliated,
- unagitated,
- unaided,
- unallied,
- unassisted,
- unassociated,
- unattended,
- unconnected,
- undisturbed,
- unescorted,
- unfrequented,
- unique,
- unmoved,
- unperturbed,
- unrelatable,
- unrelated,
- unruffled,
- unseconded,
- unstirring,
- unsupported,
- untroubled,
- unvisited,
- waning,
- withdrawn