Synonyms for inflation
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Noun
1. Swelling
swelling, pomposity, conceit, ostentation, pretentiousness, puffiness, pompousness, splashiness, ostentatiousness
Other
increase, enlargement, expansion, distension, blowing up informal, turgidity, bloatedness, magniloquence, conceitedness, sufflation dated
Definitions
- n. 1
An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas or liquid.
The inflation of the balloon took five hours.
Related words
- Word family
- inflational inflationary inflate
- Phrases
- lifestyle inflation size inflation
Forms
- Plural
- inflations → swellings, pomposities, conceits, ostentations…
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| inflation | falling | |
| pompousness | falling | |
| ostentatiousness | steady | |
| distension | steady | |
| turgidity | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 7 letters
- conceit2
- 8 letters
- increase2, swelling2
- 9 letters
- expansion3, pomposity4, puffiness, turgidity
- 10 letters
- distension, sufflation
- 11 letters
- enlargement3, ostentation4, pompousness3, splashiness, bloatedness3
- 13 letters
- magniloquence, conceitedness
- 15 letters
- pretentiousness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (conceit2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- inflation
- Italiano
- inflazione
- Deutsch
- Inflation