pluperfect

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
24
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/pluːˈpɜː.fɪkt/ (UK)
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/pluːˈpɜː.fɪkt/ (UK) · /pluˈpɝ.fɪkt/ (US)

Definition of pluperfect

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. More than perfect, utterly perfect, ideal.
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adj

  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.
    “What in the pluperfect hell is going on here?!”
    “The drought has raised pluperfect heck with fishing more ways than one.”

noun

  1. The pluperfect tense, the past perfect.
  2. 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”).

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3-letter words

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2-letter words

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