Involved vs Invasive - What's the difference?
involved | invasive |
Complicated.
* 1915 ,
Associated with others, be a participant or make someone be a participant (in a crime, process, etc.)
Having an affair with someone.
(involve)
That invades a foreign country using military force.
(of a plant or animal) That grows in environments which do not harbor natural enemes, 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.
As adjectives the difference between involved and invasive
is that involved is complicated while invasive is that invades a foreign country using military force.As a verb involved
is past tense of involve.As a noun invasive is
an invasive organism, as, a plant or animal.involved
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He related an involved story about every ancestor since 1895.
- Miss Price told him a long, involved story, which made out that Mrs. Otter, a humdrum and respectable little person, had scabrous intrigues.
- He was involved in the project for three years.
- He got involved in a bar fight.
- When the family wrapped up my father's will, no one tried to make me feel involved .
Verb
(head)- The explanation involved potatoes, squirrels, and race cars.