adj
Meaning 1
More than perfect, utterly perfect, ideal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
pluperfect
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /pluːˈpɜː.fɪkt/
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US: /pluˈpɝ.fɪkt/
adj
Meaning 2
Pertaining to action completed before another action or event in the past, past perfect.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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adj
Meaning 3
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: graph-theory, mathematics, sciences
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adj
Meaning 4
Synonym of multiperfect.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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Synonyms: multiperfect
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adj
Meaning 5
Used as an intensifier in various interjections.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Examples
- What in the pluperfect hell is going on here?!
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noun
Meaning 6
The pluperfect tense, the past perfect.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 7
A verb in this tense.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective satellite
Meaning 8
more than perfect
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he spoke with pluperfect precision
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noun
Meaning 9
a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- `I had finished' is an example of the past perfect
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect tense
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: perfective, perfective tense, perfect, perfect tense
History
Etymology
Shortening of plusquamperfect, from Latin plusquamperfectum (“more than perfect”), from plus (“more”) + quam (“than”) + perfectum, neuter singular of perfectus (“achieved; finished; perfected”).
Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: pluskvamperfekti — verb in this tense
- French: plus-que-parfait — verb in this tense
- German: Plusquamperfekt — verb in this tense
- Greek: υπερσυντέλικος (ypersyntélikos) — verb in this tense
- Ancient Greek: ὑπερσυντέλικος (hupersuntélikos) — verb in this tense
- Ido: plusquamperfekto — verb in this tense
- Italian: piuccheperfetto — verb in this tense
- Korean: 과거완료 (gwageowallyo) — verb in this tense
- Manx: yl-lanejeant — verb in this tense
- Portuguese: pretérito mais-que-perfeito — verb in this tense
- Russian: плюсквамперфе́кт (pljuskvamperfékt) — verb in this tense
- Spanish: pluscuamperfecto — verb in this tense
- Swedish: pluskvamperfekt — verb in this tense