invasive
English
/ɪnˈveɪsɪv/
adj
Definitions
- That invades a foreign country using military force.
- Relating to military aggression generally.
- (of a plant or animal) That grows in environments which do not harbor natural enemies, often to the detriment of native species or of food or garden flora and fauna.
- (medicine) (of a carcinoma etc) That invades healthy tissue; (of a procedure) in which part of the body is entered
- Intrusive on one's privacy.
- Coming from outside; originating externally.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French invasif derived from Latin invasivus root from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ- (go, pass, cross, walk, wade).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*weh₂dʰ-
Gloss
go, pass, cross, walk, wade
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
歩
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- angioinvasive English
- anti-invasive English
- bioinvasive English
- chemoinvasive English
- enteroinvasive English
- erythroinvasive English
- evade English
- hyperinvasive English
- invader English
- invasively English
- invasiveness English
- invasivity English
- invasivore English
- microinvasive English
- microinvasiveness English
- miniinvasive English
- myoinvasive English
- neuroinvasive English
- neuroinvasiveness English
- non-invasive English
- noninvasive English
- noninvasively English
- noninvasiveness English
- pervader English
- pervasive English
- pharmacoinvasive English
- postinvasive English
- preinvasive English
- proinvasive English
- evasionem Latin
- invasivus Latin
- invādō Latin
- invāsiōnem Latin
- pervado Latin
- vadum Latin
- *weh₂dʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- invasiv Norwegian Bokmål
- *wadaną Proto-Germanic
- *wadą Proto-Germanic
- invasiv Norwegian Nynorsk
- *wadlen Middle English
- invasif Middle French
- *wāðō Proto-Italic
- *wa(d) Proto-Albanian
- *wadmi Proto-Albanian
- evade
- invader
- pervader
- pervasive
- invasivore
- invasively
- invasivity
- bioinvasive
- proinvasive
- preinvasive
- myoinvasive
- noninvasive
- miniinvasive
- non-invasive
- postinvasive
- invasiveness
- microinvasive
- angioinvasive
- neuroinvasive
- chemoinvasive
- anti-invasive
- hyperinvasive
- noninvasively
- enteroinvasive
- erythroinvasive
- noninvasiveness
- pharmacoinvasive
- neuroinvasiveness
- microinvasiveness