Virulent vs Invasive - What's the difference?
virulent | invasive |
(chiefly, medicine, of a disease or disease-causing agent) Highly infectious, malignant or deadly.
Hostile to the point of being venomous; intensely acrimonious.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=8 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 virulent and invasive
is that virulent is highly infectious, malignant, or deadly while invasive is that invades a foreign country using military force.As a noun invasive is
an invasive organism, as, a plant or animal.virulent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent , and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.}}