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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 |