What part of speech is lowercase?

Lowercase can be categorized as a noun and an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. lowercase is a noun, singular of lowercases.
  • 2. lowercase is an adjective, not comparable.

Inflections

Noun

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • Not comparable
    Not comparable
  • Positive: lowercase 
  • Comparative: Not comparable
  • Superlative: Not comparable

What does lowercase mean?

Definitions

Adjective

lowercase - relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case; "lowercase letters; a and b and c etc"

Noun

lowercase - Alternative spelling of lower case.

Examples of lowercase

#   Sentence  
1. adj. Lowercase letters; a and b and c etc.
2. adj. His eights looked like lowercase Gs.
3. adj. Turkish distinguishes between dotted and dotless "I"s. There are capital and lowercase versions of both.
4. adj. After a comma, you use lowercase letters.
5. noun It's written in lowercase.
Sentence  
adj.
Lowercase letters; a and b and c etc.
His eights looked like lowercase Gs.
Turkish distinguishes between dotted and dotless "I"s. There are capital and lowercase versions of both.
After a comma, you use lowercase letters.
noun
It's written in lowercase.

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