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Glossy vs Lossy - What's the difference?

glossy | lossy |

As adjectives the difference between glossy and lossy

is that glossy is having a smooth, silklike, reflective surface while lossy is of a communication channel, subject to loss of signal strength.

As a noun glossy

is a glossy magazine.

glossy

English

(wikipedia glossy)

Adjective

(er)
  • Having a smooth, silklike, reflective surface.

    • Antonyms

    * matte

    Noun

    (glossies)
  • (chiefly, British, informal) a glossy magazine
    • The supermarket glossies are full of celebrity gossip and fad diets.

    lossy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (telecommunications) of a communication channel, subject to loss of signal strength
  • (power systems) of an electricity transmission line, subject to various forms of power loss
  • reducing the amount of information in data.
    • JPEG is a lossy image compression format.

    Antonyms

    * lossless