adjective
Etymology: French isolé isolated (from Italian isolato, from isola island — from Latin insula — + -ato -ate) + English -ate + -ed — more at isle
1.
a. : placed alone or apart : being alone : solitary
could not remain the isolated figure he had been — Sherwood Anderson
b. : caused to be alone or apart : cut off : stranded
if attacked the isolated pawn can be defended — New Complete Hoyle
2.
a. : occurring alone or once : unique
some isolated incident not likely to recur — Dorothy Barclay
b. : sporadic
the reader who has an isolated rather than overall interest — R.S.Browne
isolated instances of ill behavior — Eugene Burr
3. : not bonded (as by cement) to an adjacent structure
isolated buildings
an isolated pier
4. : separated by more than one single bond in a system of at least two double bonds in a molecule : not conjugated
isolated double bonds
• iso·lat·ed·ly ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷, ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ adverb