invasive

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: in=va=sive

CIDE DICTIONARY

invasive, a. [LL. invasivus: cf. F. invasif. See Invade.].

•  Tending to invade; characterized by invasion; aggressive.  Hoole.  [1913 Webster]
•  tending to spread, especially tending to intrude into healthy tissue; -- used mostly of tumors.  [PJC]

THESAURUS

invasive

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