ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Lossful

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Lossful is an adjective meaning (telecommunications, computing) Lossy; involving loss of information.

Meaning

(telecommunications, computing) Lossy; involving loss of information.

More Meanings

  1. (archaic) Causing loss or damage; harmful.

Example Sentences

Sing on, thou virgin soul, whose lossful gain / Thy love-sick parents have bewail'd in vain.
Thresholding and neighborhood definition are further lossful transformations which make details of the original application data virtually unrecoverable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ruinous, wreckful, woundsome, loathy, grievous, tortuous.

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