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The Collaborative International Dictionary
isolationist

isolationist \i`so*la"tion*ist\ ([imac]`s[-o]*l[=a]"sh[u^]n*[i^]st), n. A proponent or supporter of isolationism; one who is isolationistic.

isolationist

isolationist \i`so*la"tion*ist\, isolationistic \i`so*la`tion*ist"ic\adj.

  1. of or pertaining to isolationism.

    Syn: isolationist.

  2. Favoring or supporting isolationism; -- of people.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
isolationist

in reference to U.S. foreign policy, 1899 (earlier in reference to treatment of leprosy), from isolation + -ist. Isolationism is attested by 1922.

Wiktionary
isolationist

a. Of or pertaining to isolationism or an advocate thereof. n. One who advocates or supports isolationism.

WordNet
isolationist

adj. of or relating to isolationism [syn: isolationistic]

isolationist

n. an advocate of isolationism in international affairs

Wikipedia
Isolationist (comics)

The Isolationist (Josef Huber) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by Peter David and Pablo Raimondi. The character's first appearance was in X-Factor vol. 1, #89 on a single page, but his story wasn't continued until X-Factor vol. 3 #16, fifteen years later.

Usage examples of "isolationist".

Any of the crime rings, the Isolationists, Kzin intelligence, collabo underground, collabo hunters.

Since the plan gave promise of keeping the war away from American shores by financing and supplying others to fight while Americans remained nonbelligerent, it had attractions for the isolationists.

Their civilization grew to be totally isolationist and self-contained, and the citizens faced exile if they revealed anything about Shardana to outsiders.

I guessed the Wunderlanders were Isolationists and the Belters were contract smugglers.

Except for a handful of isolationist enclaves, all the worlds in the Human Chain ran on nanotech.

At the bottom of it, beneath all the talk about Yankees and Cowboys, Globalists and Isolationists, Old Money and New, lay a material interest that was almost embarrassingly crude -- oil.

The Isolationists needed medical support and had decided to get into organlegging.

This investigation was going to break the back of the Isolationists in the Swarm before they even got going and shut down a huge smuggling ring as well.

The Isolationists had been moving people back and forth to Wunderland with perfect impunity, right under our noses.

It is clear from what American papers one can get hold of that anti-British feeling is in full cry and that all the Isolationists, after a momentary retirement, have re-emerged with the same programme and slogans as before.

He only commented that the Indian societies of the Southwest were extremely isolationist, and that foreigners, especially those of Hispanic origin, were distrusted, even abhorred, by those Indians.

This meant constant work for Burden, who must placate—when not outright bribe—the Bryanites, the isolationists, the pro-Germanites and all the rest, who chose to reign in committee rather than serve their president.

The last thing I should wish is that anything I write could be used by the Anglophobes and isolationists of the Chicago Tribune.

No strand in the web is ever aware of the whole web, which is why empirical holism ends up divisive, dualistic, and isolationist.

But the very first page of the first story in this book finds the United States plunged in a new Dark Ages no longer space minded, isolationist even with respect to this planet, and under a theocracy as absolute as that of Communism.