Dictionary Entry
inflation
inflation is a 9-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement.
- 2noun
The state of being puffed up, as with pride; conceit; vanity.
- 3noun
Undue expansion or increase, from overissue; -- said of currency.
- 4noun
the act of filling something with air
- 5noun
lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
- 6noun
(cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
- 7noun
a general and progressive increase in prices
"in inflation everything gets more valuable except money"
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