Invasive

What do we mean by invasive?

Of, engaging in, or given to armed aggression. adjective

Of or relating to a disease or condition that has a tendency to spread, especially into healthy tissue. adjective

Of or relating to a medical procedure in which a part of the body is entered, as by puncture or incision. adjective

Tending to spread widely in a habitat or ecosystem. Used especially of nonnative species. adjective

Tending to intrude or encroach, as upon privacy. adjective

An invasive species or organism. noun

Tending to invade; characterized by invasion; aggressive.

Tending to invade; characterized by invasion; aggressive. adjective

Tending to spread, especially tending to intrude into healthy tissue; -- used mostly of tumors. adjective

That invades a foreign country using military force adjective

That invades a habitat to the detriment of native species adjective

(of a carcinoma etc) that invades healthy tissue; (of a procedure) in which part of the body is entered adjective

Intruding on one's privacy, or trespassing adjective

An invasive organism, as, a plant or animal. noun

Marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue adjective

Gradually intrusive without right or permission adjective

Involving invasion or aggressive attack adjective

Relating to a technique in which the body is entered by puncture or incision adjective

An invasive organism, as, a plant or animal.

Words that are spelled similarly to invasive:
invasive, invasion, evasive, incisive, invalide, invasin, inversive, invasives, inessive, invasins, infusive, unevasive, investive, innative.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word invasive:
knotweed, lantana, laparoscopic, weed, weeds, noxious, carcinoma, mussel, minimally, catheter, mussels, biopsy, zebra, carp, pest, pests, surgical, eradication, species, surgery, coronary, feral, procedures, ecosystem, blackberry, robotic, himalayan, exotic, ultrasound, procedure, cervical, bladder, acacia, ballast, biodiversity, cardiac, threaten, plants, aquatic, spine, alien, negatively, grazing, breast, shrubs, vegetation, shrub, spinal, artery, tumor, plant, perennial, diagnostic, habitat, rats, grass, extinction, ecological, moth, predators, native, ant, complications, flora, ivy, cancer, infection, fauna, diagnosis, impacts, ecology, hawaii, spreading, organisms, endangered, trout, pollution, monitoring, removal, valve, cats, bypass, dense, freshwater, patients, livestock, insects, risks, imaging, mammals, techniques, wildlife, tissue, threat, threats, affect, harm, diseases, trees, technique.

Words that rhyme with invasive:
pervasive, abrasive, persuasive, ace of, aerospace of, airspace of, apace of, base of, birthplace of, bookcase of, brace of, briefcase of, case of, chace of, chase of, commonplace of, cyberspace of, database of, diabase of, diastase of, disgrace of, embrace of, erase of, face of, fireplace of, glace of, grace of, incase of, interface of, interlace of, lace of, lovelace of, mace of, marketplace of, mesa of, pace of, paisa of, place of, plagioclase of, polymerase of, puree sieve, race of, rais of, replace of, retrace of, showcase of, showplace of, space of, staircase of, steeplechase of, suitcase of, superabrasive, trace of, typeface of, vase of, wheelbase of, workplace of.

Adjectives that are often used to describe invasive:
less, more, least, non, most, early, immediate, muscle, unacceptably, highly, inherently, privacy, lobular, all, quite, alien.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective invasive:
carcinoma, cancer, procedures, disease, procedure, techniques, species, monitoring, aspergillosis, surgery, methods, technique, carcinomas, infection, infections, cancers, tumors, method, tests, approach, nature, plants, studies, mole, growth, treatment, testing, ventilation, lesions, tumor, adenocarcinoma, cells, candidiasis, test, therapy, measurement, assessment, approaches, measurements, properties, treatments, potential, devices, evaluation, means, diagnosis, melanoma, strategy, stage, imaging, measures, therapies, organisms, strategies, tumours, investigations, lesion, investigation, interventions, component, phenotype, amebiasis, bacteria, malignancy, angiography, thymoma, modalities, alternative, pathogens, weeds, diseases, intervention, management, strains, capacity, tumour, detection, plant, sinusitis, scc, monitors, retouch, technology, ability, adenomas.

Consonant match to invasive:
inversive, inverse of.

Words that sound like invasive:
invasive, evasive, invoicing, inversive, investive, inessive, incisive, invoices, inducive, emissive, invasively, inveighing, inviscid, invest, involve, innovative, investing, invading, invoice, divisive, amusive, immensive, inves, incasing, invoiced, invesco, infusive, innative, invasor, infestive, inveighs, enchasing, enfacing, eversive, evincive, invece, nvc, omissive, in awe of, inviting, invade, elusive, invested, invaded, investor, inventive, inclusive, illusive, intrusive, intensive, envisage, impassive, inducing, invective, convulsive, immersive, invoking, erosive, envying, inveigh, in vain, encasing, effacing, invests, unvoiced, evasively, assuasive, infosys, interfacing, incursive, undeceive, conversive, investure, noninvasive, emulsive, inveil, inicio, inveighed, unvoice, enervative, non-invasive, enforcive, enlacing, envisat, illesive, incensive, inchase, infosci, ingestive, inlacing, inserve, intserv, invasiveness, inverso, investir, nvis, nvv, occasive, uncasing, unnative.