Meaning of INVASIVE
| Pronunciation: | | in'veysiv
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- [adj] gradually intrusive without right or permission; "we moved back from the encroaching tide"; "invasive tourists"; "trespassing hunters"
- [adj] marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue; "invasive cancer cells"
- [adj] (medicine) relating to a technique in which the body is entered by puncture or incision
- [adj] involving invasion or aggressive attack; "invasive war"
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| | Synonyms: | | aggressive, encroaching(a), fast-growing(a), incursive, intrusive, invading, offensive, trespassing(a) |
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| | Antonyms: | | confined, noninvasive | | |
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| | Definition: | | \In*va"sive\, a. [LL. invasivus: cf. F. invasif. See
{Invade}.]
Tending to invade; characterized by invasion; aggressive.
``Invasive war.'' --Hoole.
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| | Definition: | | - Describes a medical or surgical procedure which requires the skin to be cut open and/or objects to be inserted into the body.
- Describes a species which takes over a new habitat where it was not previously found, often to the detriment of species which were there before.
- Describes a microbe which is able to enter the body of a host organism and move about inside at will. The microbe may or may not cause any diseases.
- Describes a cancerous tumor which is able to destroy surrounding healthy tissue and expand into the area where the healthy tissue was.
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| | Related Terms: | | advancing, assailing, assaulting, attacking, charging, driving, entering, in, inbound, incoming, incursionary, incursive, inflooding, inflowing, ingoing, ingressive, inpouring, interfering, interruptive, intervenient, intrusive, invading, invasionary, inward, inward-bound, irruptive, obtrusive, thrusting |
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