INVASIVE: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for INVASIVE?

Need another word that means the same as “invasive”? Find 14 synonyms and 30 related words for “invasive” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Invasive” are: encroaching, trespassing, incursive, invading, virulent, infectious, uncontrollable, dangerous, harmful, pernicious, intruding, obtrusive, unwanted, unwelcome

Invasive as an Adjective

Definitions of "Invasive" as an adjective

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “invasive” as an adjective can have the following definitions:

• Gradually intrusive without right or permission.
• Tending to intrude on a person's thoughts or privacy.
• Tending to spread very quickly and undesirably or harmfully.
• Relating to a technique in which the body is entered by puncture or incision.
• (of medical procedures) involving the introduction of instruments or other objects into the body or body cavities.
• Involving invasion or aggressive attack.
• Marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue.

Synonyms of "Invasive" as an adjective (14 Words)

dangerous	Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm. A dangerous animal.
encroaching	Gradually intrusive without right or permission. We moved back from the encroaching tide.
harmful	Causing or likely to cause harm. Too much sun is harmful to the skin.
incursive	Involving invasion or aggressive attack.
infectious	Caused by infection or capable of causing infection. Fear is exceedingly infectious children catch it from their elders.
intruding	Projecting inward.
invading	Involving invasion or aggressive attack.
obtrusive	Noticeable or prominent in an unwelcome or intrusive way. The obtrusive behavior of a spoiled child.
pernicious	Exceedingly harmful. The pernicious influences of the mass media.
trespassing	Gradually intrusive without right or permission. Trespassing hunters.
uncontrollable	Incapable of being controlled or managed. Uncontrollable laughter.
unwanted	Not wanted. Removed the unwanted vegetation.
unwelcome	Not welcome; not giving pleasure or received with pleasure. Unwelcome publicity.
virulent	Bitterly hostile. A virulent strain of influenza.

Usage Examples of "Invasive" as an adjective

• Invasive tourists.
• The sound of the piano was invasive.
• Minimally invasive surgery.
• Patients suffering from invasive cancer.
• Invasive war.
• Invasive cancer cells.

Associations of "Invasive" (30 Words)

aggressive	Having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends. He was aggressive and imperious positive in his convictions.
diffuse	Spread or diffuse through. The light is more diffuse.
disperse	Denoting a phase dispersed in another phase as in a colloid. Winds dispersed the radioactive cloud high in the atmosphere.
dispersed	Distributed or spread over a considerable extent. Has ties with many widely dispersed friends.
dispersion	Spreading widely or driving off. The dispersion of the troops.
disseminate	Cause to become widely known. There is a subset of these low grade tumours that can disseminate and migrate.
dissemination	The property of being diffused or dispersed. The dissemination of public information.
distributed	(of a term) used to include every individual of the class to which it refers. The figures of syllogisms all have properly distributed middle terms.
expansionist	Relating to or characteristic of a policy of territorial or economic expansion. He was an aggressive expansionist.
furious	(of the elements) as if showing violent anger. He was furious when he learned about it.
imbue	Fill soak or imbue totally. His works are invariably imbued with a sense of calm and serenity.
interfering	(of a person) tending to interfere in other people’s affairs. An interfering old woman.
intersperse	Place at intervals in or among. Deep pools interspersed by shallow shingle banks.
intervene	Be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events. The snowy peaks of the Himalayas stood glistening in the far distance high above the wooded mountains that intervened.
intrusive	(of a sound) pronounced between words or syllables to facilitate pronunciation, such as an r in saw a film. She felt her presence there was intrusive.
invade	(of an armed force) enter (a country or region) so as to subjugate or occupy it. The cancer had invaded her lungs.
meddling	Intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner. My mother s meddlings annoyed me.
obnoxious	Extremely unpleasant. Obnoxious odours.
offensive	Morally offensive. An offensive odour.
perfuse	Cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across. The transplanted kidney is perfused at low pressure by retrograde flow.
permeate	Pass through. Water permeates sand easily.
pervade	(especially of a smell) spread through and be perceived in every part of. The sense of crisis which pervaded Europe in the 1930s.
pervasive	Spreading or spread throughout. An error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion.
scatter	The scattering of light other electromagnetic radiation or particles. The sandy beaches are scattered with driftwood.
scattered	Occurring or found at intervals or various locations rather than all together. The forecast is for scattered showers.
spread	The fact or process of spreading over an area. Outspread wings.
spreading	The opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate.
suffuse	Cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across. His whole frame suffused with a cold dew.
vexing	Causing irritation or annoyance. It is vexing to have to admit you are wrong.
widespread	Distributed over a considerable extent. There was widespread support for the war.