'Inflation' definitions:
Definition of 'inflation'
(from WordNet)
noun
A general and progressive increase in prices; "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money" [syn: inflation, rising prices] [ant: deflation, disinflation]
noun
(cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
noun
Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity [syn: ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, inflation]
noun
The act of filling something with air [ant: deflation]
Definition of 'Inflation'
From: GCIDE
- Inflation \In*fla"tion\, n. [L. inflatio: cf. F. inflation.]
- 1. The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement. --Boyle. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The state of being puffed up, as with pride; conceit; vanity. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Persistent expansion or increase in the general level of prices, usually caused by overissue of currency, and resulting in a reduced value of the currency. It is contrasted with deflation, and is when it occurs to a very high degree is called hyperinflation. [U.S.] [1913 Webster +PJC]
Synonyms of 'inflation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- access,
- accession,
- accretion,
- accrual,
- accruement,
- accumulation,
- addition,
- advance,
- affectation,
- aggrandizement,
- amplification,
- appreciation,
- ascent,
- augmentation,
- ballooning,
- ballyhoo,
- Barnumism,
- bedizenment,
- big price tag,
- big talk,
- bloat,
- bloatedness,
- bloating,
- blowing up,
- boom,
- boost,
- bottom price,
- breaking point,
- broadening,
- buildup,
- burlesque,
- business index,
- caricature,
- ceiling,
- ceiling price,
- command of language,
- consumer price index,
- convolution,
- cost-of-living index,
- crescendo,
- demand curve,
- development,
- diastole,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- distension,
- dropsy,
- edema,
- elevation,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- expression of ideas,
- extension,
- extortionate price,
- extravagance,
- extreme,
- extreme tension,
- famine price,
- fancy price,
- fashion,
- feeling for words,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- flatus,
- flood,
- floor,
- floor price,
- form of speech,
- fulsomeness,
- gain,
- garishness,
- gassiness,
- gaudiness,
- good price,
- grace of expression,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- greatening,
- growth,
- gush,
- heightening,
- high price,
- high-flown diction,
- hike,
- hot economy,
- huckstering,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- increase,
- increment,
- inflatedness,
- inflationary gap,
- inflationary pressure,
- inflationary prices,
- inflationary spiral,
- inordinacy,
- intumescence,
- jump,
- leap,
- lexiphanicism,
- literary style,
- loftiness,
- luridness,
- luxury price,
- magnification,
- magniloquence,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- mannerism,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- meteorism,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- mounting,
- multiplication,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- overdistension,
- overdrawing,
- overemphasis,
- overestimation,
- overexpansion,
- overextension,
- overkill,
- overstatement,
- overstrain,
- overstraining,
- overstretching,
- peculiarity,
- personal style,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontificality,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- pretty penny,
- price ceiling,
- price index,
- price level,
- prodigality,
- productiveness,
- profuseness,
- proliferation,
- prose run mad,
- puff,
- puffery,
- puffiness,
- puffing,
- puffing up,
- rack rent,
- raise,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- rise,
- rising prices,
- scarcity price,
- self-importance,
- sensationalism,
- sense of language,
- sententiousness,
- showiness,
- snapping point,
- snowballing,
- soaring costs,
- spiraling prices,
- spread,
- stiff price,
- stiltedness,
- strain,
- straining,
- stretch,
- stretching,
- stuffiness,
- style,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- superlative,
- surge,
- swell,
- swellage,
- swelling,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tension,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- top price,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- touting,
- travesty,
- trick,
- tumefaction,
- tumescence,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- turgidness,
- tympanism,
- tympany,
- up,
- upping,
- upsurge,
- upswing,
- uptrend,
- upturn,
- vein,
- waxing,
- way,
- widening,
- windiness