Definition of "pluperfect" []

• Of or being a verb tense used to express action completed before a specified or implied past time. (adjective)
• More than perfect; supremely accomplished; ideal: "He has won a reputation as [a] pluperfect bureaucrat” ( New York Times). (adjective)
• The pluperfect tense, formed in English with the past participle of a verb and the auxiliary had, as had learned in the sentence He had learned to type by the end of the semester. Also called past perfect. (noun)
• A verb or form in the pluperfect tense. (noun)

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• "Why in pluperfect hvell does he think we even have an economic meltdown?"
• "The "I knew" at the beginning of this sentence is pluperfect, which is past time, completed aspect, and is literally "I had known," but that doesn't sound right in English."
• "My cousin, who unfortunately has the curse of a state education to bear, recently asked what the pluperfect tense was."