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孤立 (こりつ, koritsu) Japanese meaning: isolation | Kotomora
Common word› JLPT N1 › Freq. Frequency Top 10,000 Conjugation 孤立する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 孤こ 立りつ する 孤こ 立りつ しない Polite 孤こ 立りつ します 孤こ 立りつ しません Past polite 孤こ 立りつ しました 孤こ 立りつ しませんでした Past 孤こ 立りつ した 孤こ 立りつ しなかった Te-form 孤こ 立りつ して 孤こ 立りつ しないで Desire 孤こ 立りつ したい 孤こ 立りつ したくない Potential 孤こ 立りつ できる 孤こ 立りつ できない Passive 孤こ 立りつ される 孤こ 立りつ されない Causative 孤こ 立りつ させる 孤こ 立りつ させない Causative passive 孤こ 立りつ させられる 孤こ 立りつ させられない Volitional 孤こ 立りつ しよう Polite volitional 孤こ 立りつ しましょう Imperative 孤こ 立りつ しろ 孤こ 立りつ するな Conditional 孤こ 立りつ すれば 孤こ 立りつ しなければ Tara conditional 孤こ 立りつ したら 孤こ 立りつ しなかったら
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He is isolated in his class.
That country became isolated from the international community.
Usage patterns 〈 人ひと 〉 を 孤こ 立りつ させる to isolate someone
The bullies isolated one student in the class.
孤こ 立りつ を 深ふか める to become more and more isolated
〈 人ひと 〉 から 孤こ 立りつ する to become isolated from someone/people
He became isolated from his friends after transferring schools.
孤こ 立りつ を 防ふせ ぐ to prevent isolation
Related words· 7 孤独 emphasizes the emotional feeling of loneliness, while 孤立 focuses on the objective, observable state of being cut off from others.
疎外 stresses being deliberately excluded or alienated by others, whereas 孤立 describes the resulting state of having no connections, regardless of cause.
孤立 is a general word for being isolated (a country, person, or group cut off from others), while 鎖国 specifically refers to a country's deliberate policy of shutting out foreign contact.
孤立 emphasizes being alone or cut off from support, often with a nuance of helplessness, while 隔離 focuses on deliberate separation for a purpose.
Show 3 more 孤立 means being isolated or cut off from others emotionally or socially, whereas 引きこもり specifically implies physically staying shut in at home.
孤立 describes being isolated from others (e.g. socially or physically), often used objectively, while 独りぼっち focuses on the personal, lonely feeling of being alone.
孤立 describes general isolation or being cut off from others, whereas 仲間外れ specifically refers to exclusion from a particular group of friends or peers.
Opposites 連帯 means solidarity or acting together with others, the opposite of 孤立's state of being cut off and alone.
孤立 describes being isolated and cut off, the opposite of 連係, which describes being linked or coordinated with others.
Don't confuse with 独立 means independence or self-sufficiency (a positive, chosen state), while 孤立 means isolation from others (often negative and unwanted) despite sharing the kanji 独.
孤立 means the abstract state of isolation and is not a noun for a person, while 孤児 (sense 2) refers to the isolated person themselves.
孤立 describes isolation in a general or social sense, whereas 飛び地 refers concretely to a piece of land geographically cut off from its main territory.
Word family· 11 isolation; becoming isolated
sense of isolation; feeling of being isolated
solitary death; dying alone
isolated tile
Etymology Compound of 孤 (ko, 'alone, orphan') and 立 (ritsu, 'stand'). The meaning 'stand alone' naturally extends to 'isolation'.
The country became increasingly isolated in the international community due to economic sanctions.
The community watch program is carried out to prevent the isolation of elderly residents.
