pluperfect

Etymology

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

Adjective

pluperfect (not comparable)

1. More than perfect.
2. (grammar) Pertaining to action completed before or at the same time as another.
3. (mathematics) Characterization of a certain type of graphs; the theorem (pluperfect graph theorem) discovered by D. R. Fulkerson in 1970.

Noun

pluperfect (plural pluperfects)

1. The pluperfect tense.
2. A verb in this tense.