isolated

(verb) place or set apart. Synonyms: isolate, insulate. Example: "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates."

(verb) obtain in pure form. Synonyms: isolate. Example: "The chemist managed to isolate the compound."

(verb) set apart from others. Synonyms: sequester, sequestrate, keep apart, set apart, isolate. Example: "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on."

(verb) separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them. Synonyms: isolate.

(adj) not close together in time. Synonyms: stray. Examples: "Isolated instances of rebellion." "A few stray crumbs."

(adj) being or feeling set or kept apart from others. Synonyms: detached, separated, set-apart. Examples: "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) marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements. Synonyms: disjunct. Example: "Little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the sahara"- scientific monthly."

(adj) cut off or left behind. Synonyms: marooned, stranded. Examples: "An isolated pawn." "Several stranded fish in a tide pool." "Travelers marooned by the blizzard."

(adj) under forced isolation especially for health reasons. Synonyms: quarantined. Examples: "A quarantined animal." "Isolated patients."

(adj) remote and separate physically or socially. Synonyms: apart(predicate), obscure. Examples: "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."