/plooh perr"fikt/
adj.
1. Gram.
a. perfect with respect to a point of reference in past time, as had done in He had done it when I came.
b. designating a tense or other verb formation or construction with such meaning, as Latin portaveram "I had carried."
2. more than perfect: He spoke the language with pluperfect precision.
n. Gram.
3. -
a. the pluperfect tense, or other verb formation or construction with such meaning.
b. a form in the pluperfect.
[ 1520-30; plu ( s quam ) perfectum (more than) perfect, trans. of Gk hypersyntelikós ]