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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
(adj) stray
not close together in time
isolated instances of rebellion; a few stray crumbs
(adj) quarantined
under forced isolation especially for health reasons
a quarantined animal; isolated patients
(adj) separated, set-apart, detached
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
(adj) disjunct
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
cut off or left behind
an isolated pawn; several stranded fish in a tide pool; travelers marooned by the blizzard