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