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lossily

adv

Etymology

From lossy + -ly.

  1. derived from *lews-✻
  2. inherited from *lusą✻
  3. inherited from *los✻
  4. inherited from los
  5. inherited from los
  6. suffixed as lossy — “loss + y”
  7. suffixed as lossily — “lossy + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a lossy way.

    • Since the image was lossily compressed, we were unable to recover the original.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lossily. 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