inflation
Plural: inflations
Noun
- a general and progressive increase in prices
- "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money"
- (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
- lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
- the act of filling something with air
- An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas or liquid.
- An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
- An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
- A decline in the value of money.
- Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
- An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.
Examples
- Due to inflation, the monthly gym fee is rising by 10% from January.
- The inflation of the balloon took five hours.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French inflation (“swelling”), from Latin īnflātiō (“expansion", "blowing up”), from īnflātus, the perfect passive participle of īnflō (“blow into, expand”), from in (“into”) + flō (“blow”). By surface analysis, inflate + -ion.
Synonyms
ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, rising prices, splashiness
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 12
inflation: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordinflation: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
inflation: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary