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Isolated vs Privy - What's the difference?

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Isolated is a related term of privy.


As adjectives the difference between isolated and privy

is that isolated is placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation while privy is private, exclusive; not public; one's own.

As a verb isolated

is (isolate).

As a noun privy is

an outdoor toilet; latrine; earth closet; john; johnny house.

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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    privy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Private, exclusive; not public; one's own.
    • The king retreated to his privy chamber.
    the privy purse
  • Secret, hidden, concealed.
  • * 1967 , William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner , Vintage 2004, p. 82:
    • Nonetheless, in the dark and privy stillness of our minds there are few of us who are not still haunted by worrisome doubts.
  • With knowledge of; party to; let in on.
    • He was privy to the discussions.

    Noun

    (privies)
  • An outdoor toilet; latrine; earth closet; john; johnny house.
  • (legal) A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.
    • (Burrill)
    (Wharton)