lossily

Adverb

Meaning

lossily (comparative more lossily, superlative most lossily)

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

Examples

If data which has been compressed lossily is decoded and compressed losslessly, the size of the result can be comparable with the size of the data before lossy compression, but the data already lost cannot be recovered. Source: Internet

Transcoding and editing details An important caveat about lossy compression (formally transcoding), is that editing lossily compressed files causes digital generation loss from the re-encoding. Source: Internet

Processing of a lossily compressed file for some purpose usually produces a final result inferior to the creation of the same compressed file from an uncompressed original. Source: Internet

Some audio formats feature a combination of a lossy format and a lossless correction which when combined reproduce the original signal; the correction can be stripped, leaving a smaller, lossily compressed, file. Source: Internet

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