isolated
English
Etymology
A rendering into English of French isolé.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈaɪsəleɪtɪd/
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: iso‧lat‧ed
Adjective
isolated (comparative more isolated, superlative most isolated)
- Placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation.
- an isolated tree in the mountains
- Happening or occurring only once.
- isolated case
- an isolated occurrence
- (chess, of a pawn) Such that no pawn of the same color is in an adjacent file.
- (meteorology, of precipitation) Affecting ten to twenty percent of a forecast zone.
- (medicine) Which has been extracted from the organism.
- (algebra, of an associated prime of a module) Minimal with respect to inclusion (among associated primes).
- Antonym: embedded
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.- I feel so isolated among my workmates
Derived terms
Translations
in isolation
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Verb
isolated
- simple past and past participle of isolate
References
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “isolated”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.