Lossful

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Causing loss or damage; harmful. archaic

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

  2. 2
    Lossy; involving loss of information.

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

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

Etymology

From loss + -ful.

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