Not close together in time:
— Isolated instances of rebellion.

synonym: stray.

Roget 893: secluded, sequestered, retired, delitescent^†, private, bye; out of the world, out of the way; the world forgetting by the world forgot" [Pope]. snug, domestic, stay-at-home.    unsociable; unsocial, dissocial^†; inhospitable, cynical, inconversable^†, unclubbable, sauvage [Fr.], troglodytic.    solitary; lonely, lonesome; isolated, single.    estranged; unfrequented; uninhabitable, uninhabited; tenantless; abandoned; deserted, deserted in one's utmost need; unfriended^†; kithless^†, friendless, homeless; lorn^†, forlorn, desolate.    unvisited, unintroduced^†, uninvited, unwelcome; under a cloud, left to shift for oneself, derelict, outcast.    banished etc. v.. ... show more

Being or feeling set or kept apart from others:
— Could not remain the isolated figure he had been.

synonyms: detached, separated, set-apart.

Roget 10: irrelative^†, irrespective, unrelated; arbitrary; independent, unallied; unconnected, disconnected; adrift, isolated, insular; extraneous, strange, alien, foreign, outlandish, exotic.    not comparable, incommensurable, heterogeneous; unconformable etc. 83.    irrelevant, inapplicable; not pertinent, not to the, purpose; impertinent, inapposite, beside the mark, a propos de bottes [Fr.]; aside from the purpose, away from the purpose, foreign to the purpose, beside the purpose, beside the question, beside the transaction, beside the point; misplaced etc. (intrusive) 24; traveling out of the record.    remote, far-fetched, out of the way, forced, neither here nor there, quite another thing; detached, segregate; disquiparant^†.    multifarious; discordant etc. 24.    incidental, parenthetical, obiter dicta, episodic.    ... show more

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.

synonym: disjunct.

Polish: rozłączny, rozdzielny

Cut off or left behind:
— An isolated pawn.

synonyms: marooned, stranded.

Under forced isolation especially for health reasons:
— Isolated patients.

synonym: quarantined.

Remote and separate physically or socially:
— Tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization.

synonyms: apart, obscure.

Roget 44: disjoined etc. v.; discontinuous etc. 70; multipartite^†, abstract; disjunctive; secant; isolated etc. v.; insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free; unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected; distinct; adrift; straggling; rift, reft^†.    [capable of being cut] scissile [Chem], divisible, discerptible^†, partible, separable.    ... show more

Roget 87: one, sole, single, solitary, unitary; individual, apart, alone; kithless^†.    unaccompanied, unattended; solus [Lat.], single-handed; singular, odd, unique, unrepeated^†, azygous, first and last; isolated etc. (disjoined) 44; insular.    monospermous^†; unific^†, uniflorous^†, unifoliate^†, unigenital^†, uniliteral^†, unijocular^†, unimodal [Math.], unimodular^†.    lone, lonely, lonesome; desolate, dreary.    insecable^†, inseverable^†, indiscerptible^†; compact, indivisible, atomic, irresolvable^†.    ... show more