Meanings
alternative non-proprietary
- not comparableLacking proprietary value; not private or privileged information; not owned by anyone (not anyone's property, whether intellectual property or otherwise).
- not comparableNot protected by trademark, patent, or trade secret and thus open to commercial use without license; said of drugs (medications) and of various kinds of goods and materials.
Synonyms: generic
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot protected by trademark, patent, or trade secret and thus open to commercial use without license; said of drugs (medications) and of various kinds of goods and materials.
nounA drug that is not proprietary.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivenot protected by trademark or patent or copyright
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Germanic*ne
- Proto-Indo-European*ís?
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
- Proto-Germanic*ainaz
- Proto-Germanic*nainaz
- Proto-West Germanic*nain
- Old Englishnān
- Middle Englishnon
- Old Englishnān
- Old Englishnān-
- Middle Englishnon-
- Englishnon-
- Englishproprietary
- Englishnonproprietary
From non- + proprietary.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
nonproprietary. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonproprietary
“nonproprietary.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonproprietary. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nonproprietary,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonproprietary.
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