ISOLATE Synonyms: 102 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

ˈī-sə-lət

Definition of isolate

as in hermit

a person who lives away from others interpersonal relationships are very stressful for him, so he lives as a virtual isolate

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isolate

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verb

ˈī-sə-ˌlāt

as in to separate

to set or keep apart from others rescuers finally reached outlying villages that had been isolated by the massive earthquake

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isolate

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adjective

as in isolated

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Noun

The tight cropping in the monochrome nudes isolates slopes, folds, shadowed recesses and curved planes that hover between landscape and abstraction. — Tara Anne Dalbow, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026 What happened to her, Umerova said, is part of a system Russia uses to unlawfully detain, isolate, torture and fabricate charges against civilians. — ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026

Verb

Each one struggled to secure greater power for himself by isolating others from the President, Darman said. — Bob Woodward, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026 Rather than swapping to a low-sodium diet, using a blend that features one particular peptide isolated from the edible Hypsizygus marmoreus mushroom could mean drastically reducing salt intake for your health, without sacrificing flavor. — New Atlas, 18 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for isolate

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Noun

In The Death of Robin Hood, Hugh Jackman plays the bandit of Nottingham, aged and retired to a hermit's life in the wilderness.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026
The hermit in me liked to stay home, the little vampire loved to step out.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of hermit

Verb

The criticism follows Hinson's move to separate herself from the president's handling of the war with Iran late last month.

— Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
The Rams last won a district title in 2023, when schools were separated into Metro and Suburban and Seminole went 10-2 in a Metro district.

— Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of separate

Adjective

That night, Pike, her boyfriend, 17-year-old Tadaryl Shipp, and an acquaintance, Shadolla Peterson, 18, lured Slemmer to an isolated area behind the agricultural campus steam plant.

— Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026
One of the coolest things happening in hip-hop production right now is the way different isolated microscenes are mining the dance music of the Black diaspora.

— Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of isolated

Noun

United regularly exploited Everton’s 4-1-4-1 system, sending runners down the side of Garner as the solitary No 6 and freeing Rashford in his mismatch up against Rohl.

— Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
The pair would work together again on his 1975 film Le Sauvage, co-starring Yves Montand as a man living a solitary on a Caribbean island who becomes entangled with a runaway bride.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of solitary

Verb

That highlights how North Carolina, and the country, have effectively become segregated by political party.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
In some cases, the agreements struck by the Justice Department required school districts to change how students are assigned to different schools or modify other policies to prevent students from being segregated by race.

— Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of segregate

Verb

The full court reheard the case in January 2024, and in October 2024 ruled 9-8 that the NLRB had no power to order the tweet removed, citing the First Amendment.

— Heather Occhino, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
Meanwhile, according to a USFWS spokesperson, around 30 million lbs of invasive carp are removed from Midwestern waters each year.

— Victoria Malloy, Time, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of remove

Adjective

The creator economy has become highly fragmented as algorithms push content into insulated silos.

— William Daddi, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Specifically, older Americans are more insulated from the affordability crunch than younger households such as millennials, the experts said.

— Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of insulated

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