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lossful

lossful adjective: causing loss or damage; harmful.

Adjective

lossful (comparative more lossful, superlative most lossful)

  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

Forms of lossful

comparativemore lossful
superlativemost lossful

Origin of lossful

From loss + -ful.

Questions about lossful

What does lossful mean?
Lossful means causing loss or damage; harmful.
What part of speech is lossful?
Lossful is an adjective.

Words near lossful in the dictionary

  1. losses
  2. losses of consortium
  3. losses of face
  4. losses of life
  5. losses of supply
  6. lossful
  7. Lossie
  8. Lossiemouth
  9. lossier
  10. lossiest
  11. lossily

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