Pluperfect
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /pluːˈpɜː.fɪkt/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Pluperfect is an adjective meaning More than perfect, utterly perfect, ideal.
Meaning
More than perfect, utterly perfect, ideal.
More Meanings
- (grammar) Pertaining to action completed before another action or event in the past, past perfect.
- (mathematics) Synonym of multiperfect.
- (informal) Used as an intensifier in various interjections.
- The pluperfect tense, the past perfect.
- A verb in this tense.
- (graph theory) 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.
Example Sentences
What in the pluperfect hell is going on here?!
The drought has raised pluperfect heck with fishing more ways than one.
Word Forms
- pluperfects
Synonyms for pluperfect
Depending on context, synonyms include plusquamperfect, preterpluperfect, multiperfect, perfect.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include perfect, subjunctive, utter, pluterperfect, ultraperfect, allperfect.
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