inflation

noun

1. a general and progressive increase in prices

- in inflation everything gets more valuable except money

Definition categories: process

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

Definition categories: event, blowup, detonation, explosion

3. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity

Similar word(s): ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness

Definition categories: attribute, inelegance

4. the act of filling something with air

Definition categories: act, enlargement, expansion