apart

Adjective

• having characteristics not shared by others
  • scientists felt they were a group apart- Vannever Bush
    

• remote and separate physically or socially
  • existed over the centuries as a world apart
    
  • preserved because they inhabited a place apart- W.H.Hudson
    
  • tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization
    
  • an obscure village
    

Adverb

• into parts or pieces
  • he took his father's watch apart
    
  • split apart
    
  • torn asunder
    

• one from the other
  • people can't tell the twins apart
    

• placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose
  • had a feeling of being set apart
    
  • quality sets it apart
    
  • a day set aside for relaxing
    

• away from another or others
  • they grew apart over the years
    
  • kept apart from the group out of shyness
    
  • decided to live apart
    

• not taken into account or excluded from consideration
  • these problems apart, the country is doing well
    
  • all joking aside, I think you're crazy
    

• separated or at a distance in place or position or time
  • These towns are many miles apart
    
  • stood with his legs apart
    
  • born two years apart
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  apart(p) , isolated , obscure , asunder , aside