isolated

  • (s) not close together in time
    • isolated instances of rebellion
    • a few stray crumbs
    stray,
  • (s) 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
    separated, set-apart, detached,
  • (s) 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,
  • (s) cut off or left behind
    • an isolated pawn
    • several stranded fish in a tide pool
    • travelers marooned by the blizzard
    marooned, stranded,
  • (s) under forced isolation especially for health reasons
    • a quarantined animal
    • isolated patients
    quarantined,
  • (s) 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, obscure,

Synonyms

stray separated set-apart detached disjunct marooned stranded quarantined apart obscure

Words of close approximity

isolate