Synonyms of inflation from BoostVocab

inflation

/ɪn'fleɪʃən/

noun
a general and progressive increase in prices
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"in inflation everything gets more valuable except money"

Similar:

rising prices

Opposite:

deflation disinflation

type of:
economic process
noun
lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
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Similar:

ostentation ostentatiousness pomposity pompousness pretentiousness puffiness splashiness

type of:
inelegance
noun
(cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
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type of:
detonation blowup explosion
noun
the act of filling something with air
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Opposite:

deflation

type of:
expansion enlargement

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