separate or apart in time; "distant events"; "the remote past or future"
separated in space or coming from or going to a distance; "distant villages"; "the sound of distant traffic"; "a distant sound"; "a distant telephone call"
far apart in relevance or relationship; "a distant cousin"; "a distant likeness"
not continuing without interruption in time or space; "discontinuous applause"; "the landscape was a discontinuous mosaic of fields and forest areas"; "he received a somewhat haphazard and discontinuous schooling"
of a function or curve; possessing one or more discontinuities
strikingly strange or unusual; "an exotic hair style"; "protons, neutrons, electrons and all their exotic variants"; "the exotic landscape of a dead planet"
a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
separated according to race, sex, class, or religion; "separate but equal"; "girls and boys in separate classes"
independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church"
divide into components or constituents; "Separate the wheat from the chaff"
force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
go one's own way; move apart; "The friends separated after the party"
make a division or separation
discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up"
act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries"
lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness; "a plan incongruous with reason"; "incongruous behavior"; "a joke that was incongruous with polite conversation"
narrowly restricted in outlook or scope; "little sympathy with parochial mentality"; "insular attitudes toward foreigners"
suggestive of the isolated life of an island; "an exceedingly insular man; so deeply private as to seem inaccessible to the scrutiny of a novelist"- Leonard Michaels
relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island; "insular territories"; "Hawaii's insular culture"