Inflation
nounɪn'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
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:DetonationBlowupExplosionthe act of filling something with air
Type of:ExpansionEnlargement
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Similar Words
- Ostentation
- Ostentatiousness
- Pomposity
- Pompousness
- Pretentiousness
- Puffiness
- Splashiness
- Inflate
- Inflationary