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lossful

adj

Etymology

From loss + -ful.

  1. derived from *lews-✻
  2. inherited from *lusą✻
  3. inherited from *los✻
  4. inherited from los
  5. inherited from los
  6. suffixed as lossful — “loss + ful”

Definitions

  1. Causing loss or damage

    Causing loss or damage; harmful.

    • Sing on, thou virgin soul, whose lossful gain / Thy love-sick parents have bewail'd in vain...

  2. Lossy

    Lossy; involving loss of information.

    • Thresholding and neighborhood definition are further lossful transformations which make details of the original application data virtually unrecoverable.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lossful. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA