isolated

[ ahy-suh-ley-tid, is-uh- ]

/ ˈaɪ səˌleɪ tɪd, ˈɪs ə- /

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adjective

separated from other persons or things; alone; solitary.

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Origin of isolated

1755–65; <French isolé isolated (<Italian; see isolato); see -ate¹, -ed²

OTHER WORDS FROM isolated

i·so·lat·ed·ly, adverbsem·i-i·so·lat·ed, adjective

Words nearby isolated

isokeraunic, isokinetic exercise, isolable, isolatable, isolate, isolated, isolated camera, isolated pawn, isolated point, isolated set, isolated system

How to use isolated in a sentence

In mid-January, the group proved that one of the isolated rational tetrahedra does not fill space.
Undergraduates Hunt for Special Tetrahedra That Fit Together|Kevin Hartnett|February 9, 2021|Quanta Magazine
Sudden, radical changes in our tech behaviors run the risk of making us feel even more isolated at a time when a lot of us need more ways to connect.
How to have a better relationship with your tech|Amy Nordrum|February 6, 2021|MIT Technology Review
We’ve learned that in many cases they are more isolated, poorer than before with no family and no support.
Passing the baton, Lorri Jean to exit as LA LGBT Center CEO|Brody Levesque|January 28, 2021|Washington Blade
If coronavirus transmission crosses three separate classrooms and contact tracing cannot be attributed to an isolated incident, Jackson said a school will revert to online learning for 14 days.
Chicago Public Schools suspends in-person learning as possible teachers strike looms|Dawn Reiss, Kim Bellware|January 27, 2021|Washington Post

Science also doesn’t stand isolated from the societies that have generated it.
Who Said Nobody Read Isaac Newton? - Issue 95: Escape|Caleb Scharf|January 20, 2021|Nautilus
Isolated lesbians learned that there were other women like them via books whose covers aimed to titillate heterosexual men.
How Pulp Fiction Saved Literature|Wendy Smith|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Which is impossible unless people talk publicly rather than letting each crime be its own isolated incident.
Cover-Ups and Concern Trolls: Actually, It's About Ethics in Suicide Journalism|Arthur Chu|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
For many years, visitors were barred from the isolated towns.
The Himalayas’ Hidden Aryans|Nina Strochlic|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He has contributed to a false picture of law enforcement based on isolated injustices.
Bill de Blasio’s Tea Party Problem|Will Cain|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
All of us can readily conjure up horror scenarios by the isolated person acting badly.
Red Tape Is Strangling Good Samaritans|Philip K. Howard|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Fully two miles away, on the south side of the ravine, were the sepoy lines, and another group of isolated bungalows.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
It fell into the three more or less isolated subjects of arithmetic, algebra and Euclid.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
It lay framed within his thoughts, isolated from the rest of life, isolated somehow even from the immediate present.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
But one battalion was isolated on a spur, from which there seemed no way of escape save under a scorching flank fire.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
Suppose that one single person owned all the food supply of a community isolated from the outside world.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock