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pluperfect

noun

  1. tense
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adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /pluːˈpɜː.fɪkt/ / /pluˈpɝ.fɪkt/

adj

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

  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.
  5. 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.”

noun

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

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