enisled
English
Etymology
en- + isle + -ed
Adjective
enisled (not comparable)
- Placed alone or apart, as if on an island.
- 1852, Matthew Arnold, To Marguerite: Continued:
- YES! in the sea of life enisl’d, / With echoing straits between us thrown, / Dotting the shoreless watery wild, / We mortal millions live alone.
- 2007, W. J. Thomas Mitchell, The Late Derrida, page 58:
- For Derrida, no isthmus, no bridge, no road, no communication or transfer, connects or can ever connect my enisled self to other selves.
- 2015, Lauren Baratz-Logsted, Isn't It Bro-Mantic?: A Johnny Smith Novel:
- Truth to tell, I'm feeling pretty enisled on my lounge chair, but that state will not hold for long because apparently I have a visitor.
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Verb
enisled
- simple past tense and past participle of enisle
Anagrams
- delines, delsine, ensiled, linseed, neleids