| Adj. | 1. | isolated - not close together in time; "isolated instances of rebellion"; "a few stray crumbs" sporadic - recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances; "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids" |
| 2. | isolated - 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" separate - independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church" | |
| 3. | isolated - 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 separate - independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church" | |
| 4. | isolated - cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard" unaccompanied - being without an escort | |
| 5. | isolated - under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a quarantined animal"; "isolated patients" segregated, unintegrated - separated or isolated from others or a main group; "a segregated school system"; "a segregated neighborhood" | |
| 6. | isolated - 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"unconnected - not joined or linked together |