isolated

英['aɪsəleɪtɪd] 美['aɪsəletɪd]

1. not close together in time;

"isolated instances of rebellion"

"scattered fire"

"a stray bullet grazed his thigh"

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"

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

4. cut off or left behind;

"an isolated pawn"

"several stranded fish in a tide pool"

"travelers marooned by the blizzard"

5. under forced isolation especially for health reasons;

"a quarantined animal"

"isolated patients"

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"