pluperfect
adjective
- Gram. designating or of the past perfect tense in any of certain languages corresponding to the past perfect in English
- exceptionally perfect: sometimes used as an intensive
noun
- the past perfect tense
- a verb form in this tense
See pluperfect in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(plo͞o-pûrˈfĭkt)
adjective- Of or being a verb tense used to express action completed before a specified or implied past time.
- More than perfect; supremely accomplished; ideal: “He has won a reputation as [a] pluperfect bureaucrat” (New York Times).
noun- The pluperfect tense, formed in English with the past participle of a verb and the auxiliary had, as had learned in the sentence He had learned to type by the end of the semester. Also called past perfect.
- A verb or form in the pluperfect tense.
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