inflation

/ɪn'fleɪʃən/ noun
9 letters3 syllables12 points in Scrabble®15 points in WWF®
DEFINITIONS4
NOUN
1

A general and progressive increase in prices.

“in inflation everything gets more valuable except money”

2

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

3

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

4

The act of filling something with air.

WORD FORMS
Related forminflate
Related forminflationary
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Scrabble®12 points
Words With Friends®15 points
Double word24 points
Triple word36 points
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Pig Latininflationway
Starts & ends withI … N
Syllablesin · fla · tion
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