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lossful en · ADJ

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Etymology

From loss + -ful.

Meanings

1. (archaic) Causing loss or damage; harmful.
   • Sing on, thou virgin soul, whose lossful gain / Thy love-sick parents have bewail'd in vain... 1611, John Donne, An Anatomy of the World:
2. Lossy; involving loss of information.
   • Thresholding and neighborhood definition are further lossful transformations which make details of the original application data virtually unrecoverable. 2008, Edward Szewczak, Selected Readings on the Human Side of Information Technology:

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