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pluperfect
noun
(plu-per-fect)
a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past
Synonyms:
past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect tense,
pluperfect
adjective
(plu-per-fect)
more than perfect
Examples:
He spoke with pluperfect precision.
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auxiliary verb
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infinitive
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past participle
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subjunctive mood
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genitive
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transcendently
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adjectival
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woodenness
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wishfulness
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latinate
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dostoevskian
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confoundedly
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nabokovian
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jocose
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simpleness
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onomatopoetic
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unintelligibility
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journalese
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lunkheaded
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solecism
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oneiric
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gavotte
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syllogisms
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metafiction
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doubleness
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aphorist
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sneery
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quiddity
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everydayness
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hyperreality
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pentameter
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confessedly
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lumpish
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boringness
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objective correlative
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scansion
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ludic
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grandiloquence
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ineffably
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ironist
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cliche
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curiousness
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spoonerism
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stolidity
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polysyllabic
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archetypally
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spatiality
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chatterer
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smarminess
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vapidness
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mockable
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tendresse
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blondness
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shtik
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