isolated
adjective
[ ˈʌɪsəleɪtɪd ]
• far away from other places, buildings, or people; remote.
• "isolated farms and villages"
Similar:
remote,
out of the way,
outlying,
off the beaten track,
secluded,
in the depths of …,
hard to find,
lonely,
in the back of beyond,
in the hinterlands,
off the map,
in the middle of nowhere,
godforsaken,
obscure,
inaccessible,
cut-off,
unreachable,
faraway,
far-flung,
in the backwoods,
lonesome,
in the backveld,
in the platteland,
in the backblocks,
in the booay,
unget-at-able,
in the sticks,
jerkwater,
in the tall timbers,
Barcoo,
beyond the black stump,
unapproachable,
Origin:
mid 18th century: from French isolé, from Italian isolato, from late Latin insulatus ‘made into an island’, from Latin insula ‘island’.
isolate
verb
• cause (a person or place) to be or remain alone or apart from others.
• "a country which is isolated from the rest of the world"
Similar:
separate,
set apart,
segregate,
detach,
cut off,
keep apart,
cocoon,
insulate,
quarantine,
keep in solitude,
sequester,
cloister,
seclude,
divorce,
shut away,
alienate,
distance,
exclude,
keep out,
cordon off,
form a ring around,
put a cordon sanitaire around,
seal off,
close off,
fence off,
rope off,
screen off,
tape off,
curtain off,
shut off,
partition off,
• identify (something) and examine or deal with it separately.
• "his difficulty will be to isolate the factors which are most significant"
Similar:
identify,
single out,
pick out,
spot,
point out,
recognize,
pinpoint,
pin down,
put one's finger on,
discern,
distinguish,
discover,
find,
locate,
sort out,
filter out,
separate out,
weed out,
Origin:
early 19th century (as a verb): back-formation from isolated.
in isolation
• without relation to other people or things; separately.
• "environmental problems must not be seen in isolation from social ones"
