Word

inflation, n.
(inflations)
freq. cnt. 1

a general and progressive increase in prices
<noun.process> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

inflation rising prices

sample sentences

"in inflation everything gets more valuable except money"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

inflationary inflate inflate

antonym

deflation disinflation

semantic pointers

hyponym

cost-pull inflation demand-pull inflation reflation stagflation

hypernym

economic process

the act of filling something with air
<noun.act>

inflation

lexical pointers

antonym

derivationally related form

inflate inflate

semantic pointers

hypernym

expansion, enlargement

lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
<noun.attribute> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

inflation ostentation ostentatiousness pomposity pompousness pretentiousness puffiness splashiness

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

ostentatious ostentatious

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

pretentious pretentious

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derivationally related form

splashy ostentatious

semantic pointers

hypernym

(cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
<noun.event>

inflation

semantic pointers

domain of synset (topic)

cosmology, cosmogony, cosmogeny

hypernym

explosion, detonation, blowup