Inflation

Noun

 * 1)  An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
 * 2)  A decline in the value of money.
 * 3)  An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
 * 4) Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
 * 5) An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.
 * 6)  An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorised to have occurred very shortly after the big bang.

Verbs for Inflation
advocate—; authorize—; block—; border on —; condemn—; criticize—; distrust—; head for—; predict—; propose—; puff by—; resort to—; spike—; suffer—; threaten—; veer from—; —benefits; —devaluates; — dilates; —distends; —enhances; —swells.

Thesaurus
Barnumism, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, affectation, aggrandizement, amplification, appreciation, ascent, augmentation, ballooning, ballyhoo, bedizenment, big price tag, big talk, bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, boom, boost, bottom price, breaking point, broadening, buildup, burlesque, business index, caricature, ceiling, ceiling price, command of language, consumer price index, convolution, cost-of-living index, crescendo, demand curve, development, diastole, dilatation, dilation, distension, dropsy, edema, elevation, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expansion, expression of ideas, extension, extortionate price, extravagance, extreme, extreme tension, famine price, fancy price, fashion, feeling for words, flashiness, flatulence, flatulency, flatus, flood, floor, floor price, form of speech, fulsomeness, gain, garishness, gassiness, gaudiness, good price, grace of expression, grandiloquence, grandioseness, grandiosity, greatening, growth, gush, heightening, high price, high-flown diction, hike, hot economy, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, increase, increment, inflatedness, inflationary gap, inflationary pressure, inflationary prices, inflationary spiral, inordinacy, intumescence, jump, leap, lexiphanicism, literary style, loftiness, luridness, luxury price, magnification, magniloquence, manner, manner of speaking, mannerism, mere rhetoric, meretriciousness, meteorism, mode, mode of expression, mounting, multiplication, orotundity, ostentation, ostentatious complexity, overdistension, overdrawing, overemphasis, overestimation, overexpansion, overextension, overkill, overstatement, overstrain, overstraining, overstretching, peculiarity, personal style, platitudinous ponderosity, polysyllabic profundity, pomposity, pompous prolixity, pompousness, pontificality, pontification, pretension, pretentiousness, pretty penny, price ceiling, price index, price level, prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, proliferation, prose run mad, puff, puffery, puffiness, puffing, puffing up, rack rent, raise, rhetoric, rhetoricalness, rise, rising prices, scarcity price, self-importance, sensationalism, sense of language, sententiousness, showiness, snapping point, snowballing, soaring costs, spiraling prices, spread, stiff price, stiltedness, strain, straining, stretch, stretching, stuffiness, style, stylistic analysis, stylistics, superlative, surge, swell, swellage, swelling, swelling utterance, swollen phrase, swollenness, tall talk, tension, the grand style, the plain style, the sublime, top price, tortuosity, tortuousness, touting, travesty, trick, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity, turgidness, tympanism, tympany, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, vein, waxing, way, widening, windiness

Etymology
From, from inflatio:, from inflatus:, the perfect passive participle of inflo:, from in: + flo:.

Antonyms

 * deflation

Derived terms
core inflation; grade inflation; hyperinflation; inflationary; stagflation; superinflation; taxonomic inflation

Related terms
inflate; conflation; reflation

Translations

 * Amharic: የዋጋ ግሽፈት
 * Arabic:
 * Belarusian: інфляцыя (infliacyja)
 * Chinese: 通货膨胀
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: inflatie
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: inflatsioon
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: (plithorismós)
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: inflacio
 * Indonesian:


 * Interlingua:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 인플레이션
 * Lithuanian: infliacija
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: inflație
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: Інфляція (infljachija or inflyachiya)
 * Vietnamese: (sự) tăng giá
 * Volapük: niflat


 * Dutch: uitdijing
 * Ido: inflacio


 * Korean: 팽창
 * Swahili:


 * Croatian:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Aufblasen, Aufblähung , Inflation
 * Greek: φούσκωμα (foúskoma)
 * Ido: inflacio
 * Indonesian: pengembangan, pengembungan,
 * Interlingua:


 * Japanese: 膨張 (ぼうちょう, bōchō), 膨らみ (ふくらみ, fukurami)
 * Korean: 팽창
 * Norwegian: oppblåsing
 * Pashto: ,
 * Romanian: inflație
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: bladosvolükön

Anagrams

 * inflatino

Noun

 * 1) inflation.

Antonyms

 * déflation

Etymology
See inflation.