Adjective
1. not close together in time;
"isolated instances of rebellion""scattered fire""a stray bullet grazed his thigh"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"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 Monthly4. cut off or left behind;
"an isolated pawn""several stranded fish in a tide pool""travelers marooned by the blizzard"5. under forced isolation especially for health reasons;
"a quarantined animal""isolated patients"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"