Associations to the word «Pluperfect»
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Wiktionary
PLUPERFECT, adjective. More than perfect
PLUPERFECT, adjective. (grammar) Pertaining to action completed before or at the same time as another
PLUPERFECT, adjective. (math) Characterization of a certain type of graphs; the theorem (pluperfect graph theorem) discovered by D. R. Fulkerson in 1970.
PLUPERFECT, noun. The pluperfect tense
PLUPERFECT, noun. A verb in this tense
PLUPERFECT TENSE, noun. (grammar) (of a verb) Tense of a verb used when referring to something that happened before another past event, spoken of in the past tense; formed in English by adding had before the past participle of a verb.
Dictionary definition
PLUPERFECT, noun. A perfective tense used to express action completed in the past; "`I had finished' is an example of the past perfect".
PLUPERFECT, adjective. More than perfect; "he spoke with pluperfect precision".
Wise words
Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you
want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's
gone, gone forever.