What part of speech is proprietary?

Proprietary can be categorized as a noun and an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. proprietary is a noun, singular of proprietaries.
  • 2. proprietary is an adjective.

Inflections

Noun

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • more proprietary
    most proprietary
  • Positive: proprietary 
  • Comparative: more proprietary
  • Superlative: most proprietary

What does proprietary mean?

Definitions

Adjective

proprietary - protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights; "`Tylenol' is a proprietary drug of which `acetaminophen' is the generic form"

Noun

proprietary - A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing in his own right.
proprietary - A body proprietors, taken collectively.
proprietary - A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.

Examples of proprietary

#   Sentence  
1. adj. `Tylenol' is a proprietary drug of which `acetaminophen' is the generic form.
2. adj. No messages will reach the EES organization unless IBM agrees not to use their proprietary message delivery tool, WebSphere, and will use WebLogic instead.
3. adj. This proprietary Gel Suspension technology makes possible single serving packets of Gelceuticals.
4. adj. Our software is proprietary.
5. adj. I never use proprietary software.
6. adj. The only functional drivers for this hardware are proprietary.
7. adj. The only drivers for this hardware are proprietary.
8. adj. I've come here today to talk about the dangers of proprietary software.
9. noun Currently, most of that data is expensive and proprietary.
Sentence  
adj.
`Tylenol' is a proprietary drug of which `acetaminophen' is the generic form.
No messages will reach the EES organization unless IBM agrees not to use their proprietary message delivery tool, WebSphere, and will use WebLogic instead.
This proprietary Gel Suspension technology makes possible single serving packets of Gelceuticals.
Our software is proprietary.
I never use proprietary software.
The only functional drivers for this hardware are proprietary.
The only drivers for this hardware are proprietary.
I've come here today to talk about the dangers of proprietary software.
noun
Currently, most of that data is expensive and proprietary.

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