pluperfect

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UK /pluːˈpɜː.fɪkt/ US /pluˈpɝ.fɪkt/

adj 5noun 2

Collocations

ADJ.

conditional, perfect, perfect, present, tense

VERB + PLUPERFECT

raised, remembered

PREP.

in, until, with

Definitions

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.

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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Example Bank

What in the pluperfect hell is going on here?!

Wiktionary

The drought has raised pluperfect heck with fishing more ways than one.

Wiktionary

I had not remembered what the pluperfect tense was until I looked it up to write this sentence.

Tatoeba · #8777329

I don't see the point of learning the present perfect, pluperfect, conditional perfect, and future perfect tenses separately if they're all the exact same.

Tatoeba · #10192985

It's in the pluperfect tense.

Tatoeba · #11536030

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, pluperfect is marked as informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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