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Adjective isolated has 6 senses
- isolated, scattered, stray - not close together in time; "isolated instances of rebellion"; "scattered fire"; "a stray bullet grazed his thigh"
Antonym: continual (indirect, via sporadic)
- detached, isolated, separated, set-apart - being or feeling set or kept apart from others; "she felt detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart feeling"
Antonym: joint (indirect, via separate)
- disjunct, isolated - marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements; "little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara"- Scientific Monthly
Antonym: joint (indirect, via separate)
- isolated, marooned, stranded - cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard"
Antonyms: accompanied, attended (indirect, via unaccompanied)
- isolated, quarantined - under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a quarantined animal"; "isolated patients"
Antonym: integrated (indirect, via segregated)
- apart, isolated, obscure - remote and separate physically or socially; "existed over the centuries as a world apart"; "preserved because they inhabited a place apart"- W.H.Hudson; "tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization"; "an obscure village"
Antonym: connected (indirect, via unconnected)
Verb isolate has 4 senses
- isolate, insulate - place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates"
--1 is one way to discriminate, separate, single out
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- isolate - obtain in pure form; "The chemist managed to isolate the compound"
--2 is one way to get, acquire
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- sequester, sequestrate, keep apart, set apart, isolate - set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
--3 is one way to separate, disunite, divide, part
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- isolate - separate (experiences) fromt he emotions relating to them
--4 is one way to classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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