inflation

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noun

1. a general and progressive increase in prices (Freq. 1)
- in inflation everything gets more valuable except money
• Syn:
rising prices
• Ant:
deflation, disinflation
• Derivationally related forms:
inflationary, inflate
• Hypernyms:
economic process
• Hyponyms:
cost-pull inflation, demand-pull inflation, reflation, stagflation
2. (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
• Topics:
cosmology, cosmogony, cosmogeny
• Hypernyms:
explosion, detonation, blowup
3. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
• Syn:
ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness,
puffiness, splashiness
• Derivationally related forms:
ostentatious (for: splashiness), pretentious (for: pretentiousness), pompous (for: pompousness), pompous (for: pomposity), ostentatious (for: ostentatiousness)
• Hypernyms:
inelegance
4. the act of filling something with air
• Ant:
deflation
• Derivationally related forms:
inflate
• Hypernyms:
expansion, enlargement

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, rising prices
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  deflation, disinflation