pluperfect
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Definition of pluperfect
7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
- More than perfect, utterly perfect, ideal.
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adj
- More than perfect, utterly perfect, ideal.
- Pertaining to action completed before another action or event in the past, past perfect.
- 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.
- Synonym of multiperfect.
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(informal)Used as an intensifier in various interjections.
“What in the pluperfect hell is going on here?!”
“The drought has raised pluperfect heck with fishing more ways than one.”
noun
- The pluperfect tense, the past perfect.
- A verb in this tense.
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Etymology
Shortening of plusquamperfect, from Latin plusquamperfectum (“more than perfect”), from plus (“more”) + quam (“than”) + perfectum, neuter singular of perfectus (“achieved; finished; perfected”).
Words you can make from pluperfect
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8 words6-letter words
23 words- CUPPER 12 pts
- PURFLE 11 pts
- REFECT 11 pts
- PEEPUL 10 pts
- PRECUT 10 pts
- PULPER 10 pts
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- RECEPT 10 pts
- FERULE 9 pts
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5-letter words
37 words- CLEFT 10 pts
- CRUFT 10 pts
- CLEPE 9 pts
- CLEPT 9 pts
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- TERCE 7 pts
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- ELUTE 5 pts
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4-letter words
62 words- CLEF 9 pts
- CURF 9 pts
- PELF 9 pts
- CEPE 8 pts
- PEEP 8 pts
- PERC 8 pts
- PERP 8 pts
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- TRUE 4 pts
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3-letter words
44 words- CEP 7 pts
- CUP 7 pts
- PEC 7 pts
- PEP 7 pts
- PUP 7 pts
- EFT 6 pts
- ELF 6 pts
- FEE 6 pts
- FER 6 pts
- FET 6 pts
- FEU 6 pts
- FLU 6 pts
- FUR 6 pts
- REF 6 pts
- CEE 5 pts
- CEL 5 pts
- CRU 5 pts
- CUE 5 pts
- CUR 5 pts
- CUT 5 pts
- ECU 5 pts
- PEE 5 pts
- PER 5 pts
- PET 5 pts
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- PUR 5 pts
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- EEL 3 pts
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- LET 3 pts
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- REE 3 pts
- RET 3 pts
- RUE 3 pts
- RUT 3 pts
- TEE 3 pts
- TEL 3 pts
- UTE 3 pts
2-letter words
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