Pluperfect in English dictionary

  • pluperfect

    Meanings and definitions of "Pluperfect"

    • More than perfect
    • (grammar) Pertaining to action completed before or at the same time as another
    • The pluperfect tense
    • A verb in this tense
    • adjective
      More than perfect
    • adjective
      (grammar)
      Pertaining to action completed before or at the same time as another
    • adjective
      (mathematics)
      Characterization of a certain type of graphs; the theorem ( pluperfect graph theorem) discovered by D. R. Fulkerson in 1970.
    • noun
      The pluperfect tense
    • noun
      A verb in this tense
    • tense
    • verb in this tense
    • Grammatical tense (verb form), that is used for events that happen before a point of reference in the past. The reference is given in the context of the story.
    • adjective
      more than perfect; "he spoke with pluperfect precision"
    • noun
      a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past; "`I had finished' is an example of the past perfect"

    Synonyms of "Pluperfect" in English dictionary

    perfective, perfective tense, pluperfect tense are the top synonyms of "Pluperfect" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of Pluperfect

    • pluperfect ( plural  pluperfects)
    • pluperfect ( not comparable)
    • pluperfect (not comparable)
    • pluperfect (plural pluperfects)
  • Pluperfect

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