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Distant vs Isolated - What's the difference?

distant | isolated |

As adjectives the difference between distant and isolated

is that distant is far off (physically, logically or mentally) while isolated is placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation.

As a verb isolated is

(isolate).

distant

English

Alternative forms

* distaunt (obsolete) * dystant (obsolete) * dystaunt (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Far off (physically, logically or mentally).
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
  • Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.
  • isolated

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation.
  • (chess, of a pawn) Such that no pawn of the same color is in an adjacent file.
  • (meteorology, of precipitation) affecting 10 percent to 20 percent of a forecast zone.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (isolate)
  • Anagrams

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