adj, noun — 7 senses
UK /pluːˈpɜː.fɪkt/ · US /pluˈpɝ.fɪkt/
Etymology Shortening of plusquamperfect, from Latin plusquamperfectum (“more than perfect”), from plus (“more”) + quam (“than”) + perfectum, neuter singular of perfectus (“achieved; finished; perfected”).
More than perfect, utterly perfect, ideal.
Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Pertaining to action completed before another action or event in the past, past perfect.
Graph theory, Mathematics, Sciences 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.
Mathematics, Sciences Synonym of multiperfect.
Informal Used as an intensifier in various interjections.
Etymology Shortening of plusquamperfect, from Latin plusquamperfectum (“more than perfect”), from plus (“more”) + quam (“than”) + perfectum, neuter singular of perfectus (“achieved; finished; perfected”).
The pluperfect tense, the past perfect.
A verb in this tense.
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