1. Remote and separate physically or socially
   "tiny isolated villages remote from centres of civilization";
   - apart, obscure, out on a limb
    
2. Sparsely and randomly scattered or dispersed
   "isolated instances of rebellion";
   - stray
    
3. Occurring rarely or as a single instance, not part of a pattern
   "An isolated incident"; "These were isolated cases of fraud"
    
4. Being or feeling set or kept apart from others
   "could not remain the isolated figure he had been";
   - detached, separated, out on a limb
    
5. 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
    
6. Cut off or left behind
   "an isolated pawn";
   - marooned, stranded
    
7. Under forced isolation especially for health reasons
   "isolated patients";
   - quarantined

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

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