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| NOUN | 1 | inflation, rising prices | A general and progressive increase in prices |
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| 2 | inflation | (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang | |
| 3 | inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, splashiness | Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | |
| 4 | inflation | The act of filling something with air |
| Sounds | ihnfley'shahn |
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| Rhymes | Aachen, Aaron, abandon, and 2504 more rhymes in ahn at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | A general and progressive increase in prices. |
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| Examples | "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money" |
| Synonyms | rising prices |
| Narrower | cost-pull inflation; demand-pull inflation; inflationary spiral; reflation; stagflation |
| Broader | economic process |
| Contrary | deflation; disinflation |
| Verbs | inflate; inflate |
| Meaning | (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang. |
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| Category | cosmology, cosmogony, cosmogeny |
| Broader | explosion, detonation, blowup |
| Meaning | Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity. |
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| Synonyms | ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, splashiness |
| Broader | inelegance |
| Meaning | The act of filling something with air. |
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| Broader | expansion, enlargement |
| Contrary | deflation |
| Verbs | inflate; inflate |