inflation

Meanings

Noun

• a general and progressive increase in prices
  • "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money"
• (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
• lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
• the act of filling something with air

Synonyms

ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, rising prices, splashiness

Antonyms

deflation, disinflation