inflation
noun
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- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a general and progressive increase in prices
in inflation everything gets more valuable except money
Types & categories
- economic process hypernym
- cost-pull inflation hyponym
- demand-pull inflation hyponym
- reflation hyponym
- stagflation hyponym
Related & opposite
- deflation antonym
- disinflation antonym
- inflate derivation
- inflate derivation
- inflationary derivation
Sense 2 noun
(cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
Types & categories
- explosion hypernym
Related & opposite
- cosmogony domain topic
Sense 3 noun
lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
Types & categories
- inelegance hypernym
Related & opposite
- ostentatious derivation
- overblown derivation
- ostentatious derivation
Sense 4 noun
the act of filling something with air
Types & categories
- expansion hypernym
Related & opposite
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | deflation |
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | disinflation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | inflate |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | inflate |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | inflationary |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | economic process |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | cost-pull inflation |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | demand-pull inflation |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | reflation |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | stagflation |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | cosmogony |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | explosion |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | ostentatious |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | overblown |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | ostentatious |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | inelegance |
| 4 | antonym | Related & opposite | deflation |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | balloon |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | inflate |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | expansion |