invasive

Adjective

• gradually intrusive without right or permission
  • we moved back from the encroaching tide
    
  • invasive tourists
    
  • trespassing hunters
    

• involving invasion or aggressive attack
  • invasive war
    

• marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue
  • invasive cancer cells
    

• relating to a technique in which the body is entered by puncture or incision

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  encroaching(a) , trespassing(a) , incursive , invading
• Antonyms: 
  confined , noninvasive