English to English
noun
- a general and progressive increase in prices
In inflation everything gets more valuable except money.
source: WordNet 3.0
- (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
source: WordNet 3.0
- lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
source: WordNet 3.0
- the act of filling something with air
source: WordNet 3.0
- The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement.
source: Webster 1913
