Inflation

noun
ɪn'fleɪʃən

Noun

  • a general and progressive increase in prices

    in inflation everything gets more valuable except money

  • lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity

    Similar:OstentationOstentatiousnessPomposityPompousnessPretentiousness
    Type of:Inelegance
  • (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang

    Type of:DetonationBlowupExplosion
  • the act of filling something with air

    Type of:ExpansionEnlargement

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Similar Words

  • Ostentation
  • Ostentatiousness
  • Pomposity
  • Pompousness
  • Pretentiousness
  • Puffiness
  • Splashiness
  • Inflate
  • Inflationary