isolating
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- adjective
- /ˈaɪsəˌleɪtɪŋ/
- Specialized
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- Learning a new language can feel very isolating when you don't have anyone to practice with.
Examples
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Actually, being a college student can be a very isolating experience.
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And it's so isolating and terrifying.
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That breaks my heart, because if we were all better at talking about these things, it might make the illness a little less isolating.
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The digital world can be very, very isolating and dividing if we allow it to be.
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It can be very isolating and lonely when you have a kid.
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It can be quite isolating and lonely.
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This circumstance is an incredibly overwhelming and isolating experience, especially for someone new to a job.
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It was extremely isolating to realize that when the power was out, the phone, the cell, and TV, etc. are useless.
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I just didn't think it would be as isolating and daunting as it turned out to be...
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Depression is so isolating.
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Synonyms
A kind of language where words are usually a single part and grammar comes from word order
Antonyms
How Agglutinative
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word isolating comes from isolate, which comes from the Latin insula, meaning 'island'. Think of words as little islands: in an isolating language each word usually 'stands alone' and carries one idea instead of changing its form.