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inflation



noun
1. a general and progressive increase in prices (Freq. 1)
- in inflation everything gets more valuable except money
Syn:
rising prices
Ant:
deflation, disinflation
Derivationally related forms:
inflationary, inflate
Hypernyms:
economic process
Hyponyms:
cost-pull inflation, demand-pull inflation, reflation, stagflation
2. (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
Topics:
cosmology, cosmogony, cosmogeny
Hypernyms:
explosion, detonation, blowup
3. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
Syn:
ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness,
puffiness, splashiness
Derivationally related forms:
ostentatious (for: splashiness), pretentious (for: pretentiousness), pompous (for: pompousness), pompous (for: pomposity), ostentatious (for: ostentatiousness)
Hypernyms:
inelegance
4. the act of filling something with air
Ant:
deflation
Derivationally related forms:
inflate
Hypernyms:
expansion, enlargement

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