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pluperfect en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /pluːˈpɜː.fɪkt/ (UK)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /pluˈpɝ.fɪkt/ (US)

Etymology

Shortening of plusquamperfect, from Latin plusquamperfectum (“more than perfect”), from plus (“more”) + quam (“than”) + perfectum, neuter singular of perfectus (“achieved; finished; perfected”).

Meanings

  1. More than perfect, utterly perfect, ideal.
  2. Pertaining to action completed before another action or event in the past, past perfect.
  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.
  4. Synonym of multiperfect.
  5. (informal) Used as an intensifier in various interjections.
    • The drought has raised pluperfect heck with fishing more ways than one. 1952, North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Wildlife in North Carolina - Volumes 16-19:
    • What in the pluperfect hell is going on here?!

Forms

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plpf. Abbr=Yes alternative lexicographic
most pluperfect Degree=Sup lexicographic
more pluperfect Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

pluperfectness · pluperfectly

Relateds

pluperfection

Synonyms

multiperfect

Translations (1)

pl zaprzeszły (grammar)

pluperfect en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /pluːˈpɜː.fɪkt/ (UK)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /pluˈpɝ.fɪkt/ (US)

Etymology

Shortening of plusquamperfect, from Latin plusquamperfectum (“more than perfect”), from plus (“more”) + quam (“than”) + perfectum, neuter singular of perfectus (“achieved; finished; perfected”).

Meanings

  1. The pluperfect tense, the past perfect.
  2. A verb in this tense.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
plpf. Abbr=Yes alternative lexicographic
pluperfects Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

preterpluperfect · plusquamperfect

Translations (15)

fr plus-que-parfait (verb in this tense) · pt pretérito mais-que-perfeito (verb in this tense) · io plusquamperfekto (verb in this tense) · gv yl-lanejeant (verb in this tense) · grc ὑπερσυντέλικος (verb in this tense) · de Plusquamperfekt (verb in this tense) · es pluscuamperfecto (verb in this tense) · ko 과거완료 (verb in this tense) · it piuccheperfetto (verb in this tense) · sv pluskvamperfekt (verb in this tense) · el υπερσυντέλικος (verb in this tense) · pl czas zaprzeszły (pluperfect tense) · fi pluskvamperfekti (verb in this tense) · pl forma zaprzeszła czasownika (verb in this tense) · ru плюсквамперфе́кт (verb in this tense)