isolated Definition
iso·lated (ī′sə lāt′əd)
adjective
- set apart; separate; solitary an isolated lighthouse
- not occurring or happening regularly or frequently; rare an isolated instance of violence
isolated Synonyms
isolated
modif.
isolated Usage Examples
Modifying Another Word
- socially: Baytree opens the door to education and widens the participation of the socially isolated and disadvantaged.
- increasingly: Whilst a neighbor helped with her shopping, the lady found herself increasingly isolated, lonely and depressed.
- relatively: This issue is still relatively isolated and low-key, but it is now escalating.
- quite: They tend to be quite isolated and unable to resolve a hurt, wrong or injustice which can be felt very deeply.
- very: I became very isolated and insular, very unhappy.
- not: This would ensure that the trainees are not isolated and have ready access to academic support.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
feel: Feeling I am part of a large community of hirers ( and feeling a lot less isolated ).
Modifies a noun
- incident: However, the delay in passing the call to a doctor did not seem to have been an isolated incident.
- farmstead: The only other settlement is an isolated farmstead by the coast.
- lough: Whilst some continue to exist as isolated small loughs, many have now been infilled by sediment washing off the surrounding drumlins.
- farmhouse: But when he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath.
- pocket: Most of the coastal forest strip along the South Coast no longer exists and the forest exists in small, isolated pockets.
- island: Pure Red Deer may in the end be confined to isolated islands in Scotland.
Used with adjective complement
- feel: I have always felt isolated with my blood disorder.
- become: Imber has already become isolated from the rest of the world.
- remain: Until recently, the Baha'is in these countries have also remained fairly isolated, contact with their co-religionists abroad often being regarded with suspicion.
- have: I have Isolated Lissencephaly Sequence which means that my brain didn't develop correctly.
Browse dictionary entries near isolated
- ‹ isolate
- ‹ isohyet
- ‹ isohel
- ‹ isogram
- ‹ isogony
- ‹ isogonic
- ‹ isogloss
- ‹ isogeotherm
- ‹ isogenous
- ‹ isogamy
- isolated point ›
- isolation ›
- isolationism ›
- isolationist ›
- Isolde ›
- Isolette ›
- isoleucine ›
- isoline ›
- isologous ›
- isomagnetic ›

