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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IS'OLATED, pp. or a. Standing detached from others of a like kind; placed by itself or alone.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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, isolated, obscure]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1763 1. occurring alone or once ; unique 2. sporadic

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 lonely; cut off from society or contact; remote (feeling isolated; an isolated farmhouse). 2 untypical, unique (an isolated example).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Isolate I"so*late (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Isolated; p. pr. & vb. n. Isolating.] [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.) To insulate. See Insulate. 3. (Chem.) To separate from all foreign substances; to make pure; to obtain in a free state.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Isolated I"so*la`ted, a. Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others. Isolated point of a curve. (Geom.) See Acnode.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. An isolated place is a long way away from large towns and is difficult to reach. Many of the refugee villages are in isolated areas... = remote ADJ 2. If you feel isolated, you feel lonely and without friends or help. Some patients may become very isolated and depressed. = cut off ADJ: usu v-link ADJ 3. An isolated example is an example of something that is not very common. They said the allegations related to an isolated case of cheating. = rare ADJ: ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Detached, separate, solitary, single.

Moby Thesaurus

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