inflation

Nouns

  • (n) a general and progressive increase in prices
    • in inflation everything gets more valuable except money
    rising prices,
  • (n) (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
  • (n) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, splashiness, ostentation, puffiness,
  • (n) the act of filling something with air

Synonyms

rising prices ostentatiousness pomposity pompousness pretentiousness splashiness ostentation puffiness

Antonyms

deflation disinflation

Words of close approximity

inflationary inflationary spiral inflation rate inflation therapy