isolated

A rendering into English of French isolé.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪsəleɪtɪd/

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• Hyphenation: iso‧lat‧ed

isolated (comparative more isolated, superlative most isolated)

1. Placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation.

   an isolated tree in the mountains

   • 2024 June 20, Eva Corlett, “Fidlets, fingies and riding a doo: study sheds light on Antarctic English slang”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 9 August 2024:

     Antarctica, like outer-space, is known as an ICE environment – isolated, confined and extreme – meaning unlike other isolated communities, the rate of change for its vocabulary can be slower.

2. Happening or occurring only once.

   isolated case

   an isolated occurrence

   • 2025 November 13, Kamala Thiagarajan, “If you're going to be kind to another human, today is the day to do it!”, in NPR‎^[2], archived from the original on 2 December 2025:

     And while one isolated act of kindness may seem random, it can lead to much more.

3. (chess, of a pawn) Such that no pawn of the same color is in an adjacent file.
4. (meteorology, of precipitation) Affecting ten to twenty percent of a forecast zone.
5. (medicine) Which has been extracted from the organism.
6. (medicine) Of a condition or abnormality: occurring in the absence of associated conditions or abnormalities.
7. (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

isolated

1. simple past and past participle of isolate

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