isolated
Từ điển Collocation
isolated adj.
VERBS appear, be, feel | become, get | remain | leave sb/sth Without help, many elderly people would be left isolated. | keep sb/sth She kept herself almost isolated from her colleagues.
ADV. extremely, very | completely, entirely, totally, utterly | increasingly, progressively | almost | largely | quite, rather, relatively, somewhat | effectively, essentially | apparently an apparently isolated incident | culturally, diplomatically, economically, geographically, physically, socially a culturally isolated community Unless a compromise could be reached the country would be diplomatically isolated on this issue.
PREP. from a child who is isolated from other children
Từ điển WordNet
adj.
- not close together in time; stray
isolated instances of rebellion
a stray bullet grazed his thigh
- being or feeling set or kept apart from others; detached, separated, set-apart
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
- 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; disjunct
- cut off or left behind; marooned, stranded
an isolated pawn
several stranded fish in a tide pool
travelers marooned by the blizzard
- under forced isolation especially for health reasons; quarantined
a quarantined animal
isolated patients
- remote and separate physically or socially; apart(p), obscure
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
v.
- place or set apart; insulate
They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates
- obtain in pure form
The chemist managed to isolate the compound
- set apart from others; sequester, sequestrate, keep apart, set apart
The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on
- separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them
English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary
isolates|isolated|isolating
syn.: quarantine seclude segregate separate set apart