pluperfect
More than perfect, utterly perfect, idealMore than perfect, utterly perfect, ideal.
» It's in the pluperfect tense.
Meaning
5 sensesMore than perfect, utterly perfect, ideal.
more than perfect
Pertaining to action completed before another action or event in the past, past perfect.
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.
Synonym of multiperfect.
(informal)Used as an intensifier in various interjections.
What in the pluperfect hell is going on here?!
Examples
2 sentencesIt's in the pluperfect tense.
I had not remembered what the pluperfect tense was until I looked it up to write this sentence.
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
Shortening of plusquamperfect, from Latin plusquamperfectum (“more than perfect”), from plShortening of plusquamperfect, from Latin plusquamperfectum (“more than perfect”), from plus (“more”) + quam (“than”) + perfectum, neuter singular of perfectus (“achieved; finished; perfected”).
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Forms
more pluperfect, most pluperfect| Comparative | more pluperfect Lesson |
|---|---|
| Superlative | most pluperfect Lesson |
regular
Synonyms
1 synonymsWord family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form