invasive

invasive is a 8-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Tending to invade; characterized by invasion; aggressive. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Tending to invade; characterized by invasion; aggressive.
2. adjective. gradually intrusive without right or permission

   "we moved back from the encroaching tide"

   "invasive tourists"

   Synonyms: encroaching, trespassing

3. adjective. marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue

   "invasive cancer cells"

4. adjective. relating to a technique in which the body is entered by puncture or incision
5. adjective. involving invasion or aggressive attack

   "invasive war"

   Synonyms: incursive, invading

Synonyms

encroaching, trespassing, incursive, invading

Common word forms

invasiveness

Words from these letters

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