isolated

not close together in time

• “isolated instances of rebellion”
• “scattered fire”
• “a stray bullet grazed his thigh”

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”

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

cut off or left behind

• “an isolated pawn”
• “several stranded fish in a tide pool”
• “travelers marooned by the blizzard”

under forced isolation especially for health reasons

• “a quarantined animal”
• “isolated patients”

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”