inflation

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas or liquid.
2. (countable, uncountable) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money, adjusted for by way of higher nominal values.
3. (countable, uncountable) Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
4. (countable, uncountable) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.

Synonyms

swelling

rising prices

splashiness

blowing up

filling

swell

turgidity

pomposity

pompousness

pretentiousness

distension

ostentation

puffiness

ostentatiousness

flatulency

fulfillment

fulfilment

gas up

hauteur

increase

inflated

insufflation

pack

padding

puff

run up

satisfaction

stuff

stuffing

turgidness

upsurge

high horse

increase in price

gasing

tumidness

inflationary cycle

inflationary trend

topping-up

monetary inflation

inflation of currency

gas loading

expansion of currency

gas charging

air inflation

mountion inflation

currency inflation

aerate

sufflation

aerify

appreciation

Translations

inflation

Inflation

inflación

inflação

inflazione

inflatie

πληθωρισμός

enflasyon

inflació

φούσκωμα

inflatio

gonflement

gonflage

διόγκωση

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪnˈfleɪʃən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: -

In summary

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French inflation (“swelling”), from Latin īnflātiō (“expansion", "blowing up”), from īnflātus, the perfect passive participle of īnflō (“blow into, expand”), from in (“into”) + flō (“blow”). By surface analysis, inflate + -ion.