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pluperfect.

More than perfect, utterly perfect, ideal.

10 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/pluːˈpɜː.fɪkt/UK/pluˈpɝ.fɪkt/US
  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. Used as an intensifier in various interjections.

    informal
    What in the pluperfect hell is going on here?!
Where this word comes from

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

noun/pluːˈpɜː.fɪkt/UK/pluˈpɝ.fɪkt/US
  1. The pluperfect tense, the past perfect.

  2. A verb in this tense.

Where this word comes from

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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