adj, verb ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   simple past and past participle of isolate form-of, participle, past

Adjective

1. 1
   Placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation.

   "an isolated tree in the mountains"

2. 2
   Happening or occurring only once.

   "isolated case"

3. 3
   Such that no pawn of the same color is in an adjacent file.
4. 4
   Affecting ten to twenty percent of a forecast zone.
5. 5
   Which has been extracted from the organism.

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6. 6
   Of a condition or abnormality: occurring in the absence of associated conditions or abnormalities.
7. 7
   Minimal with respect to inclusion (among associated primes).

Adjective

1. 1
   remote and separate physically or socially wordnet
2. 2
   not close together in time wordnet
3. 3
   under forced isolation especially for health reasons wordnet
4. 4
   being or feeling set or kept apart from others wordnet
5. 5
   marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements wordnet

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6. 6
   cut off or left behind wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

disjunctquarantinedset apartunconnectedabandonedalien

Antonyms

All antonyms

embedded

Example

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"The more stubborn you are, the more isolated you become."

Etymology

A rendering into English of French isolé.

Related phrases

isolated horizonisolated pawnisolated systemsocially-isolated

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