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isolated Definition

iso·lated (īsə lāt′əd)

adjective

  1. set apart; separate; solitary an isolated lighthouse
  2. 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.

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