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pluperfect

adj
/pluːˈpɜː.fɪkt/UK/pluˈpɝ.fɪkt/US

Etymology

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

  1. borrowed from plusquamperfectum

Definitions

  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…

    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. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Synonym of multiperfect.

    2. 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.

    3. The pluperfect tense, the past perfect.

    4. A verb in this tense.

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Derived

pluperfectly, pluperfectness

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pluperfect. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA