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1. Not close together in time
   "isolated instances of rebellion";
   - stray
    
2. Being or feeling set or kept apart from others
   "could not remain the isolated figure he had been";
   - detached, separated, set-apart, out on a limb
    
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";
   - disjunct
    
4. Cut off or left behind
   "an isolated pawn";
   - marooned, stranded
    
5. Under forced isolation especially for health reasons
   "isolated patients";
   - quarantined
    
6. Remote and separate physically or socially
   "tiny isolated villages remote from centres of civilization";
   - apart, obscure, out on a limb

1. Separate in order to protect or prevent interaction
   "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates";
   - insulate
    
2. (chemistry) obtain in pure form
   "The chemist managed to isolate the compound"
    
3. Set apart from others
   "The dentist isolates the tooth he is working on";
   - sequester, sequestrate, keep apart, set apart
    
4. (psychology) separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them

See also: segregated, separate, sporadic, unaccompanied, unconnected, unintegrated

Type of: acquire, assort, class, classify, discriminate, disunite, divide, get, part, separate, single out, sort, sort out

Encyclopedia: Isolated