isolated
- adjective
- /ˈaɪsəˌleɪtɪd/
- Living in a remote cabin, she often felt isolated from her friends and family.
- socially isolated
- feel isolated
- become isolated
But we're not isolated people, you know, we're not.
- But we're not isolated people, you know, we're not.
- It keeps the design team isolated from outside influences.
- No, but it's an improvement over isolated misery.
- This person who is isolated, emotionally isolated behind a shield.
- You can be isolated in an intimate relationship.
- They are isolated in their Manhattan apartments.
- Because if you have no vices, you are isolated from the best part of humanity.
- One of the greatest tricks of racism is how isolated it makes this feel.
- We are not meant to be totally isolated from each other or to push others away.
- He seems more timid, more cloistered, and when he's more isolated, he seems sadder.
- This means so much for seniors who've been isolated grandkids.
Examples
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But it could become an isolated country, out of step with much of the world.
Academic text (1999) -
Over the following months, she became increasingly isolated.
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But we're not isolated people, you know, we're not.
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On the other hand, the village has certainly become less isolated in recent years.
Academic text (1990) -
Most importantly, through program transformation, students who need mental health services in this isolated district now have that opportunity.
Academic text (2013) -
I was so unhappy, lonely, isolated, terrified.
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It was a very isolated society.
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It can be great for scholars of color who feel isolated in their schools.
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They are isolated in their Manhattan apartments.
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The village is located on a ten-acre land tract in a relatively isolated, essentially agricultural area.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
Not joined to another thing and kept apart
Only, not including any other person or thing
Being alone and not with other people or things
Choosing to be alone or living by oneself
No longer close or warm to someone you used to know well
Alone and not near other people or things
Living apart from other people and the outside world, often in a quiet place
Feeling separate from other people or different from them
Kept away from other people in a quiet private place
Not together with other people, kept apart from them
Feeling alone and not part of a group or society
Antonyms
How Isolated
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Isolated comes from the Latin insula 'island' and is like the English word island; picture a person alone on an island with little contact. That image explains why someone who has little contact with others feels isolated.