Main entry: isolated, apart, obscure
Definition: remote and separate physically or socially
Usage: 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
Definition: not close together in time
Usage: isolated instances of rebellion; a few stray crumbs
Main entry: isolated, quarantined
Definition: under forced isolation especially for health reasons
Usage: a quarantined animal; isolated patients
Main entry: separated, set-apart, isolated, detached
Definition: being or feeling set or kept apart from others
Usage: 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
Main entry: disjunct, isolated
Definition: marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements
Usage: little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara- Scientific Monthly
Main entry: stranded, marooned, isolated
Definition: cut off or left behind
Usage: an isolated pawn; several stranded fish in a tide pool; travelers marooned by the blizzard