Synonyms of isolated

Verb


1. isolate, insulate, discriminate, separate, single out

usage: place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates"

2. isolate, get, acquire

usage: obtain in pure form; "The chemist managed to isolate the compound"

3. sequester, sequestrate, keep apart, set apart, isolate, separate, disunite, divide, part

usage: set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"

4. isolate, classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate

usage: separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them

Adjective


1. isolated, stray, sporadic (vs. continual)

usage: not close together in time; "isolated instances of rebellion"; "a few stray crumbs"

2. detached, isolated, separated, set-apart, separate (vs. joint)

usage: 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. disjunct, isolated, separate (vs. joint)

usage: 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. isolated, marooned, stranded, unaccompanied (vs. accompanied)

usage: cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard"

5. isolated, quarantined, segregated (vs. integrated), unintegrated

usage: under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a quarantined animal"; "isolated patients"

6. apart(predicate), isolated, obscure, unconnected (vs. connected)

usage: 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"

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Definition and meaning of isolated (Dictionary)