isolated
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4.2
- adjective
- /ˈaɪsəˌleɪtɪd/
- Living in a remote cabin, she often felt isolated from her friends and family.
- socially isolated
- feel isolated
- become isolated
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Watch on YouTubeBut 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
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1.0
Only, not including any other person or thing
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2.1
Not joined to another thing and kept apart
120
1.0
Not together with other people, kept apart from them
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4.6
Being alone and not with other people or things
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6.7
No longer close or warm to someone you used to know well
30
6.8
Feeling alone and not part of a group or society
5
7.4
Kept away from other people in a quiet private place
5
8.7
Living apart from other people and the outside world, often in a quiet place
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3.5
Alone and not near other people or things
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6.7
Feeling separate from other people or different from them
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1.0
Choosing to be alone or living by oneself
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.