isolated

Adjective

• 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
    

• under forced isolation especially for health reasons
  • a quarantined animal
    
  • isolated patients
    

• cut off or left behind
  • an isolated pawn
    
  • several stranded fish in a tide pool
    
  • travelers marooned by the blizzard
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

• not close together in time
  • isolated instances of rebellion
    
  • a few stray crumbs
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  apart(p) , obscure , quarantined , marooned , stranded , disjunct , detached , separated , set-apart , stray