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isolated

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isolated in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. 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"
    apart  isolated  obscure 
  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"
    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
    disjunct  isolated 
  4. under forced isolation especially for health reasons
    "a quarantined animal"; "isolated patients"
    isolated  quarantined 
  5. not close together in time
    "isolated instances of rebellion"; "a few stray crumbs"
    isolated  stray 
  6. cut off or left behind
    "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard"
    isolated  marooned  stranded 
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