pluperfect

Meanings

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.

1. The pluperfect tense, the past perfect.
2. A verb in this tense.

Etymology

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