Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lossily

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: loss-i-ly
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a lossy way.

Example Sentences

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

Etymology

Etymology tree English lossy Middle English -ly English -ly English lossily From lossy + -ly.

Inflected Forms

more lossily (comparative) most lossily (superlative)

Questions

What does lossily mean?: In a lossy way.
Where does lossily come from?: Etymology tree English lossy Middle English -ly English -ly English lossily From lossy + -ly.

How to pronounce lossily

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