pluperfect

Meaning

Adj

1. More than perfect, utterly perfect, ideal.
2. Pertaining to action completed before another action or event in the past, past perfect.
3. Relating to a certain type of graph, complying with the theorem (pluperfect graph theorem) discovered by D. R. Fulkerson in 1970.
4. Synonym of multiperfect.
5. (informal) Used as an intensifier in various interjections.

Noun

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

Synonyms

past perfect

pluperfect tense

past perfect tense

long past

remote

Translations

plus-que-parfait

Plusquamperfekt

pluscuamperfecto

plusquamperfectum

mais-que-perfeito

υπερσυντέλικος

piuccheperfetto

Vorvergangenheit

piucchepperfetto

plusquamperfectum

plusquamperfet

mais que perfeito

pretérito mais-que-perfeito

voltooid verleden tijd

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pluːˈpɜː.fɪkt/

Etymology

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