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English noun: inflation | |||
| 1. | inflation (process) a general and progressive increase in prices | ||
| Samples | In inflation everything gets more valuable except money. | ||
| Synonyms | rising prices | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | economic process | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | cost-pull inflation, demand-pull inflation, reflation, stagflation | ||
| Antonyms | disinflation, deflation | ||
| 2. | inflation (event) (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | blowup, detonation, explosion | ||
| Domain category | cosmogeny, cosmogony, cosmology | ||
| 3. | inflation (attribute) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | ||
| Synonyms | ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | inelegance | ||
| 4. | inflation (act) the act of filling something with air | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | enlargement, expansion | ||
| Antonyms | deflation | ||
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