isolated

English

Etymology

A rendering into English of French isolé.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪsəleɪtɪd/

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• Hyphenation: iso‧lat‧ed

Adjective

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

Derived terms

• isolate (via back-formation)
• isolated horizon
• isolatedly
• isolatedness
• isolated pawn
• isolated system
• nonisolated
• optoisolated
• socially-isolated
• unisolated

Translations

in isolation

• Albanian: veçuar (sq)
• Bulgarian: отделен (bg) (otdelen), изолиран (bg) (izoliran)
• Catalan: aïllat (ca)
• Czech: izolovaný (cs), osamocený
• Dutch: afgezonderd (nl), geïsoleerd (nl)
• Esperanto: izola
• Finnish: eristäytynyt
• French: isolé (fr)
• German: isoliert (de), gesondert (de), abgesondert (de)
• Greek: απομονωμένος (el) (apomonoménos), μοναχικός (el) (monachikós)
• Hindi: वियुक्त (hi) (viyukt), विलगित (hi) (vilgit), एकल (hi) (ekal)
• Irish: aonarach, aonartha, aonarúil
• Italian: isolato (it)
• Latin: sēcrētus
• Malay: terasing
• Malayalam: ഒറ്റപ്പെട്ട (oṟṟappeṭṭa)
• Māori: tārake, tūhāhā
• Naga:

  Khiamniungan Naga: tìk

• Persian: ایزوله (fa) (izole)
• Plautdietsch: eensiedlich
• Polish: odizolowany
• Portuguese: isolado (pt)
• Romanian: izolat (ro)
• Russian: изоли́рованный (ru) (izolírovannyj), обосо́бленный (ru) (obosóblennyj), уединённый (ru) (ujedinjónnyj), ото́рванный (ru) (otórvannyj) (от чего-либо)
• Scottish Gaelic: iomallach, air leth
• Spanish: aislado (es)
• Swedish: isolerad (sv)
• Tagalog: bukod (tl), himukod
• Turkish: izole (tr)
• Welsh: ar wahân (cy)

Verb

isolated

1. simple past and past participle of isolate

Anagrams

• altoside, diastole, diolates, elastoid, sodalite, solidate