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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
Dictionary Results for invasive:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
invasive
    adj 1: relating to a technique in which the body is entered by
           puncture or incision [ant: noninvasive]
    2: marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy
       tissue; "invasive cancer cells" [ant: confined]
    3: involving invasion or aggressive attack; "invasive war" [syn:
       incursive, invading, invasive]
    4: gradually intrusive without right or permission; "we moved
       back from the encroaching tide"; "invasive tourists";
       "trespassing hunters" [syn: encroaching(a), invasive,
       trespassing(a)]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Invasive \In*va"sive\, a. [LL. invasivus: cf. F. invasif. See
   Invade.]
   1. Tending to invade; characterized by invasion; aggressive.
      "Invasive war." --Hoole.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Med.) tending to spread, especially tending to intrude
      into healthy tissue; -- used mostly of tumors. [Narrower
      terms: malignant] PJC]

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