INFLATION as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • the act of filling something with air
   Hypernyms(s) inflation is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • expansion (what does expansion mean?)
   • enlargement (what does enlargement mean?)
   Antonym(s)
   • deflation (what does deflation mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • balloon (what does balloon mean?)
   • inflate (what does inflate mean?)
   • billow (what does billow mean?)
   • inflate (what does inflate mean?)
   • blow up (what does blow up mean?)
2. Meaning
   • lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
   Synonym(s)
   • ostentation (what does ostentation mean?)
   • ostentatiousness (what does ostentatiousness mean?)
   • pomposity (what does pomposity mean?)
   • pompousness (what does pompousness mean?)
   • pretentiousness (what does pretentiousness mean?)
   • splashiness (what does splashiness mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) inflation is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • inelegance (what does inelegance mean?)
3. Meaning
   • (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
   Hypernyms(s) inflation is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • explosion (what does explosion mean?)
   • detonation (what does detonation mean?)
   • blowup (what does blowup mean?)
4. Meaning
   • a general and progressive increase in prices
   Synonym(s)
   • rising prices (what does rising prices mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • in inflation everything gets more valuable except money
   Hypernyms(s) inflation is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • economic process (what does economic process mean?)
   Antonym(s)
   • deflation (what does deflation mean?)
   • disinflation (what does disinflation mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • cost-pull inflation (what does cost-pull inflation mean?)
   • demand-pull inflation (what does demand-pull inflation mean?)
   • inflationary spiral (what does inflationary spiral mean?)
   • reflation (what does reflation mean?)
   • stagflation (what does stagflation mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • inflate (what does inflate mean?)
   • inflate (what does inflate mean?)