Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective 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.
- noun 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.
- noun A verb or form in the pluperfect tense.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In music, augmented: said of intervals.
- Noting the time, or the expression of time, of an action occurring prior to another specified time: as, the pluperfect tense.
- noun In grammar, the pluperfect tense of a verb, or an equivalent verb-phrase: for example, Latin amaveram, English ‘I had loved.’
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective More than perfect; past perfect; -- said of the tense which denotes that an action or event was completed at or before the time of another past action or event.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective More than
perfect - adjective grammar Pertaining to action
completed before or at the same time as another - noun The
pluperfect tense - noun A
verb in this tense
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective more than perfect
- noun a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Why in pluperfect hvell does he think we even have an economic meltdown?
Mitt Romney For Auto Industry Czar* - Swampland - TIME.com 2008
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Why in pluperfect hvell does he think we even have an economic meltdown?
Mitt Romney For Auto Industry Czar* - Swampland - TIME.com 2008
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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.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] MBack 2010
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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.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] MBack 2010
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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.
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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.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] MBack 2010
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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.
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My cousin, who unfortunately has the curse of a state education to bear, recently asked what the pluperfect tense was.
French is too important to be left to middle-class Francophiles | Andrew Hussey 2011
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There's no room for self-pity in reality, no pretense in the pluperfect present.
Bitter Ballads - No. 3 DJ Young 2011
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“Thriller” was not so much innovation as it was pluperfect power pop.
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