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Isolated

adjective

1.

Not close together in time. Synonym: stray. "A few stray crumbs"

2.

Being or feeling set or kept apart from others. Synonyms: detached, separated, set-apart. "Could not remain the isolated figure he had been" , "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. Synonym: disjunct.

4.

Cut off or left behind. Synonyms: marooned, stranded. "Several stranded fish in a tide pool" , "Travelers marooned by the blizzard"

5.

Under forced isolation especially for health reasons. Synonym: quarantined. "Isolated patients"

6.

Remote and separate physically or socially. Synonyms: apart, obscure. "Preserved because they inhabited a place apart" , "Tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization" , "An obscure village"

Isolate

verb

(past & past part. isolated; pres. part. isolating)

1.

Place or set apart. Synonym: insulate.

2.

Obtain in pure form.

3.

Set apart from others. Synonyms: keep apart, sequester, sequestrate, set apart.

4.

Separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them.

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"Isolated" Quotes from Famous Books

... crowded. There were still isolated cases of defiance toward the new Government, but they were rare. The Central Land Committee had appealed to the Peasants, ordering them not to recognise the Land Decree passed by the Congress of the Soviets, because it would cause confusion and civil war. ...

— Ten Days That Shook the World • John Reed

... interpretation of Scripture, should be the great test of membership. Advice is administered by the essayist to the Church of which he is a clergyman, in this language: "A national church may also find itself in this position; which, perhaps, is our own. Its ministers may become isolated between two other parties,—between those, on the one hand, who draw fanatical inferences from formularies and principles which they themselves are not able or are unwilling to repudiate; and on the other, those who have been tempted, in impatience of old fetters, to follow free ...

— History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology • John F. Hurst

... saying that the Forester should be his own severest taskmaster. The Forester must keep himself up to his own work. In no other profession, to my knowledge, is a man thrown so completely on his own responsibility. The Forester often leads an isolated life for weeks or months at a time, seeing the men under whom he works only at distant intervals. Because he is so much his own master, the responsibility which rests upon him is peculiarly his own, and must be met out of the resources ...

— The Training of a Forester • Gifford Pinchot

... and the salt foam of the Mediterranean, the huge solitary cliff rises majestically from the deep blue water. Whether viewed in brilliant sunshine under a cloudless sky, or in foul weather, when the sea is hurling its waves over the stone causeway that connects the isolated crag with the little city of Ischia, the first sight of this historic castle is singularly impressive. Nor is its grandeur lessened on a near approach, for the ascent to its topmost tower takes us through ...

— The Naples Riviera • Herbert M. Vaughan

... utilized on the farm to better advantage than they are at present. But people live somewhat isolated lives in rural communities and there is not the active comparison or competition that one finds in the city; improvements of all kinds are therefore slower of realization. Values are not forced home by every-day discussion and comparison. People continue ...

— Rural Life and the Rural School • Joseph Kennedy

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