Isolated and Nearby

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Isolated adjective - Screened or sequestered from view.

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Nearby is an antonym for isolated.

Nearby Words: isolation, isolating, isolator

Nearby adjective - Not being distant in time, space, or significance.

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Isolated is an antonym for nearby.

Nearby Words: near, nearness

An isolated castle containing a magic school, with a forest nearby?

Source: Older Than They Think / Literature
Charles Dickens wrote a short ghost story entitled The Signal-Man which is about the eponymous signalman, his lonely signal box located in an isolated railway cutting, and the supernatural occurrences that happen nearby.

Source: Railroad Employee Roundhouse

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