pluperfect

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pluperfect

/ˌpluːˈpɜː.fɪkt/ UK
/ˌpluˈpɝ.fɪkt/ US

Where it comes from

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

adjective more pluperfect · most pluperfect · plpf.

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.
Similar: multiperfect
informal Used as an intensifier in various interjections. What in the pluperfect hell is going on here?!

noun pluperfects · plpf.

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

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noun verb in this tense

Español	pluscuamperfecto
한국어	과거완료 gwageowallyo
Português	pretérito mais-que-perfeito
Français	plus-que-parfait
Deutsch	Plusquamperfekt
Italiano	piuccheperfetto
Ελληνικά	υπερσυντέλικος ypersyntélikos
Русский	плюсквамперфе́кт pljuskvamperfékt

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@misc{pluperfect_2026,
  title = {pluperfect},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pluperfect},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}