Meaning

More than perfect, utterly perfect, ideal..

Definitions by Sense

1. More than perfect, utterly perfect, ideal.
2. (grammar) Pertaining to action completed before another action or event in the past, past perfect.
3. (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.
4. (mathematics) Synonym of multiperfect.
5. (informal) Used as an intensifier in various interjections.
6. The pluperfect tense, the past perfect.
7. A verb in this tense.

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

• more pluperfect
• most pluperfect
• plpf.
• pluperfects

Synonyms for pluperfect

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When Should You Use Pluperfect?

Use pluperfect when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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