Proprietary (adjective)
Of or relating to property or ownership.
“proprietary rights”
Proprietary (adjective)
Owning something; having ownership.
“the proprietary class”
Proprietary (adjective)
Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret.
“The continuous profitability of the company is based on its many proprietary products.”
Proprietary (adjective)
Nonstandard and controlled by one particular organization.
“a proprietary extension to the HTML standard for Web page structure”
Proprietary (adjective)
Privately owned.
“a proprietary lake; a proprietary chapel”
Proprietary (adjective)
Possessive, jealous, or territorial.
Proprietary (noun)
A proprietor or owner.
Proprietary (noun)
A body of proprietors, taken collectively.
Proprietary (noun)
The rights of a proprietor.
Proprietary (noun)
A monk who had reserved goods and belongings to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
Confidential (adjective)
Kept, or meant to be kept, secret within a certain circle of persons; not intended to be known publicly
“The newspaper claims a leaked confidential report by the government admits to problems with corrupt MPs.”
Confidential (adjective)
Inclined to share confidences.
“Sitting in front of the fire, they became quite confidential, and began to gossip.”
Proprietary (adjective)
relating to an owner or ownership
“the company has a proprietary right to the property”
Proprietary (adjective)
behaving as if one owned something or someone
“he looked about him with a proprietary air”
Proprietary (adjective)
(of a product) marketed under and protected by a registered trade name
“proprietary brands of insecticide”
Confidential (adjective)
intended to be kept secret
“confidential information”
Confidential (adjective)
(of a person’s tone of voice) indicating that what one says is private or secret
“he dropped his voice to a confidential whisper”
Confidential (adjective)
entrusted with private or restricted information
“a confidential secretary”