pluperfect

Meanings

Adjective

• More than perfect.
• Pertaining to action completed before or at the same time as another.
• Relating to a certain type of graph, complying with the theorem (pluperfect graph theorem) discovered by D. R. Fulkerson in 1970.
• Synonym of multiperfect
• Used as an intensifier in various interjections.

Noun

• The pluperfect tense.
• A verb in this tense.

Related

Similar words

• plusquamperfect, preterpluperfect

Origin

• Shortening of plusquamperfect, from Latin plusquamperfectum, from plus + quam + perfectum, neuter singular of perfectus.