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Lossiest vs Mossiest - What's the difference?

lossiest | mossiest |

As adjectives the difference between lossiest and mossiest

is that lossiest is (lossy) while mossiest is (mossy).

lossiest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (lossy)

    • 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

    mossiest

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (mossy)

    • mossy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Covered in or overgrown with moss.

    • Derived terms

    * mossy cell * mossy fiber, mossy fibre * mossy foot * mossy New Caledonian gecko * mossy saxifrage * mossiness * mossy-back, mossy-backed * * mossy-cup oak * mossy horn * mossy stonecrop * mossy zinc