Definitions for invasive

invasive in·va·sive

Spelling: [in-vey-siv]
IPA: /ɪnˈveɪ sɪv/

Invasive is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 154 anagrams from letters in invasive (aeiinsvv).

Definitions for invasive

adjective

  1. characterized by or involving invasion; offensive:
  2. invading, or tending to invade; intrusive.
  3. Medicine/Medical. requiring the entry of a needle, catheter, or other instrument into a part of the body, especially in a diagnostic procedure, as a biopsy.

Origin of invasive

First recorded in 1400-50; late Middle English word from Medieval Latin word invāsīvus. See invasion, -ive

Examples for invasive

Potential changes also need to consider the impact that invasive security measures would have on morale.

We may be driven from the road by the invasive motor car, but there are still the footpaths and the tameless moorland.

However around 80 percent of breast cancers are invasive Ductal Carcinomas (IDC).

Our hurtful circumstances are so invasive and so immediate that only God can come between us and them.

Still another assault, or invasive outroad, northward against the Russian Magazines, there also was; of which by and by.

Not even by tradition do our common people know anything of the horrors of foreign and invasive war.

Besides the danger to animals, these exotic animals may cause havoc as an invasive species.

Only in the high seas are there still some habitats free of invasive species.

She studied it till the conventional phrases took a fiery hue, and came at her with an invasive rush.

The procedure they undergo to extract eggs is intense and invasive and there are no sexual kicks involved.

Word Value for invasive
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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