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inflation

noun

1 inflation

A general and progressive increase in prices:
— In inflation everything gets more valuable except money.

synonym: rising prices.

Roget 322: rarity, tenuity; absence of solidity etc. 321; subtility; subtilty, subtlety; sponginess, compressibility.    rarefaction, expansion, dilatation, inflation, ... show more

Roget 800: money, legal tender; money matters, money market; finance; accounts etc. 811; funds, treasure; capital, stock; assets etc. ... show more

Roget 577: ornament; floridness c.    adj.. turgidity, turgescence; altiloquence etc. adj.; declamation, teratology; well-rounded periods; elegance etc. 578; ... show more

Roget 349: wind, draught, flatus, afflatus, efflation, eluvium; air; breath, breath of air; puff, whiff, zephyr; blow, breeze, ... show more

Dutch: inflatie, opblazen
Polish: inflacja

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.

Polish: inflacja kosmologiczna, inflacja

3 inflation

Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity.

synonyms: ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness.

Roget 194: expansion; increase of size etc. 35; enlargement, extension, augmentation; amplification, ampliation; aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, ... show more

Dutch: hoogdravendheid
Polish: napuszoność, bombastyczność, górnolotność, bombast, pompatyczność

4 inflation

The act of filling something with air.

Polish: rozdymanie, nadymanie


Moby thesaurus: Barnumism, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, affectation, aggrandizement, amplification, appreciation, ascent, augmentation, ballooning, ballyhoo, bedizenment, big price tag, big talk ... show more.

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