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lossily

lossily adverb: in a lossy way.

Adverb

lossily (comparative more lossily, superlative most lossily)

  1. In a lossy way.
    • Since the image was lossily compressed, we were unable to recover the original.

Forms of lossily

comparativemore lossily
superlativemost lossily

Origin of lossily

From lossy + -ly.

Questions about lossily

What does lossily mean?
Lossily means in a lossy way.
What part of speech is lossily?
Lossily is an adverb.

Words near lossily in the dictionary

  1. lossful
  2. Lossie
  3. Lossiemouth
  4. lossier
  5. lossiest
  6. lossily
  7. lossiness
  8. Lossing
  9. Lossings
  10. lossless
  11. lossless junction

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