inflation
inflation is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The state of being puffed up, as with pride; conceit; vanity. B. Jonson.
- 2.Undue expansion or increase, from overissue; -- said of currency. [U.S.]
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absence
- alliteration
- alliterative
- altiloquence
- altiloquent
- antithesis
- antithetical
- artificial
- bombast
- bombastic
- cavernous
- compressibility
- compressible
- declamation
- declamatory
- diffusion
- dilatation
- dilate
- elegance
- ether
- euphemism
- euphemistic
- euphuism
- euphuist
- euphuistic
- evaporation
- expand
- expansion
- figurative
- fine
- flaming
- flashy
- flimsy
- florid
- floridness
- flourish
- flowery
- flowing
- flown
- frothy
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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