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pluperfect

/pluːˈpɜː.fɪkt/US/pluˈpɝ.fɪkt/

pluperfect adjective: more than perfect, utterly perfect, ideal.

Adjective

pluperfect (comparative more pluperfect, superlative most pluperfect)

  1. More than perfect, utterly perfect, ideal.
  2. Pertaining to action completed before another action or event in the past, past perfect.
  3. Being or relating to a certain type of graph that complies with a theorem ("pluperfect graph theorem") discovered by D. R. Fulkerson in 1970, satisfying even more constraints than a perfect graph.
  4. Synonym of multiperfect.
    Synonyms:
    multiperfect
  5. (informal) Used as an intensifier in various interjections.
    • What in the pluperfect hell is going on here?!
    • The drought has raised pluperfect heck with fishing more ways than one.1952, North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Wildlife in North Carolina - Volumes 16-19

Noun

pluperfect (plural pluperfects)

  1. The pluperfect tense, the past perfect.
  2. A verb in this tense.

Synonyms of pluperfect

Forms of pluperfect

Adjective
comparativemore pluperfect
superlativemost pluperfect
alternative abbreviationplpf.
Noun
pluralpluperfects

Origin of pluperfect

Shortening of plusquamperfect, from Latin plusquamperfectum (“more than perfect”), from plus (“more”) + quam (“than”) + perfectum, neuter singular of perfectus (“achieved; finished; perfected”).

Words formed from pluperfect

Phrases with pluperfect

Questions about pluperfect

What does pluperfect mean?
Pluperfect means more than perfect, utterly perfect, ideal.
What part of speech is pluperfect?
Pluperfect can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce pluperfect?
Pluperfect is pronounced /pluːˈpɜː.fɪkt/ (UK).

Words near pluperfect in the dictionary

  1. plunky
  2. pluot
  3. pluots
  4. plup
  5. plupatriotic
  6. pluperfect
  7. pluperfect tense
  8. pluperfect tenses
  9. pluperfection
  10. pluperfections
  11. pluperfectly

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