Added 8 October 2026
pluperfect
/pluːˈpɜː.fɪkt/ adjective
Latin root: plusquamperfectum Wiktionary
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- More than perfect, utterly perfect, ideal.
- Pertaining to action completed before another action or event in the past, past perfect.
- 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.
noun
Origin
Shortening of plusquamperfect, from Latin plusquamperfectum (“more than perfect”), from plus (“more”) + quam (“than”) + perfectum, neuter singular of perfectus (“achieved; finished; perfected”).
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