Meaning of inflation in English

1. Pronunciation

   /ɪnˈfleɪʃ(ə)n/

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1. Noun

   inflation

   Etymology

   Middle English (in the sense ‘the condition of being inflated with a gas’): from Latin inflatio(n-), from inflare‘blow in to’ (see inflate). inflation (sense 2) dates from the mid 19th century

   Definitions

   1. a general and progressive increase in prices

   Examples

   • « in inflation everything gets more valuable except money »

   Antonyms

   • deflation
   • disinflation
2. 2. (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
3. 3. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
4. 4. the act of filling something with air

   Antonyms

   • deflation