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Involved vs Invasive - What's the difference?

involved | invasive |

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)
  • Complicated.
  • He related an involved story about every ancestor since 1895.
  • * 1915 ,
  • Miss Price told him a long, involved story, which made out that Mrs. Otter, a humdrum and respectable little person, had scabrous intrigues.
  • Associated with others, be a participant or make someone be a participant (in a crime, process, etc.)
  • 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 .
  • Having an affair with someone.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (involve)
  • The explanation involved potatoes, squirrels, and race cars.

    invasive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * invasively * invasiveness * noninvasive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An invasive organism, as, a plant or animal.
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