pluperfect

Of or being a verb tense used to express action completed before a specified or implied past time.

More than perfect; supremely accomplished; ideal.

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.

A verb or form in the pluperfect tense.

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.

In grammar, the pluperfect tense of a verb, or an equivalent verb-phrase: for example, Latin amaveram, English ‘I had loved.’

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.

More than perfect

Pertaining to action completed before or at the same time as another