Word Meanings - ISOLATED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others. Isolated point of a curve. See Acnode.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ISOLATED)
- Simple
- Single
- incomplex
- uncompounded
- unblended
- isolated
- pure
- unmixed
- mere
- absolute
- plain
- unadorned
- unartificial
- artless
- sincere
- undesigning
- single-minded
- unaffected
- sickly
- weak
- unsophisticated
- humble
- homely
- lowly
- elementary
- ultimate
- primal
- rudimentary
Related words: (words related to ISOLATED)
- SINCERELY
In a sincere manner. Specifically: Purely; without alloy. Milton. Honestly; unfeignedly; without dissimulation; as, to speak one's mind sincerely; to love virtue sincerely. - SINGLE-BREASTED
Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast. - PLAINTIVE
1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n. - ABSOLUTENESS
The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness. - ULTIMATE
come to an end, fr. ultimus the farthest, last, superl. from the same 1. Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last; final. My harbor, and my ultimate repose. Milton. Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive to this - PLAINTIFF
One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to Ant: defendant. (more info) French equiv. to plaignant complainant, prosecutor, fr. plaindre. See - SINGLE-ACTING
Having simplicity of action; especially , acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc. - HUMBLE
humilis on the ground, low, fr. humus the earth, ground. See Homage, 1. Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage. THy humble nest built on the ground. Cowley. 2. Thinking - SINCERENESS
See FL - SINGLE-HANDED
Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted. - RUDIMENTARY
Very imperfectly developed; in an early stage of development; embryonic. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to rudiments; consisting in first principles; elementary; initial; as, rudimental essays. - PLAINT
A private memorial tendered to a court, in which a person sets forth his cause of action; the exhibiting of an action in writing. Blackstone. (more info) planctum , to beat, beat the breast, lament. Cf. 1. Audible expression of sorrow; - SINGLE-HEARTED
Having an honest heart; free from duplicity. -- Sin"gle-heart"ed*ly, adv. - PLAINLY
In a plain manner; clearly. - ISOLATE
To insulate. See Insulate. (more info) 1. To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others. Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts. Bp. - SIMPLE
simplus, or simplex, gen. simplicis. The first part of the Latin words is probably akin to E. same, and the sense, one, one and the same; cf. L. semel once, singuli one to each, single. Cg. Single, a., 1. Single; not complex; not infolded - PLAIN-SPOKEN
Speaking with plain, unreserved sincerity; also, spoken sincerely; as, plain-spoken words. Dryden. - HUMBLER
One who, or that which, humbles some one. - PLAINTLESS
Without complaint; unrepining. "Plaintless patience." Savage. - PLAIN-HEARTED
Frank; sincere; artless. Milton. -- Plain"-heart`ed*ness, n. - ANTEPENULTIMATE
Of or pertaining to the last syllable but two. -- n. - THUMBLESS
Without a thumb. Darwin. - CHAMPLAIN PERIOD
A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain. Note: The earlier deposits of this period are diluvial in character, as if formed in connection with floods attending - EXPLAIN
out+plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, 1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn. 2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear - SLOWLY
In a slow manner; moderately; not rapidly; not early; not rashly; not readly; tardly. - UNSINCERE
Not sincere or pure; insincere. Dryden. -- Un`sin*cere"ness, n.