Definition of Inflation

Noun: inflation in'fley-shun

A general and progressive increase in prices
"in inflation everything gets more valuable except money";
- rising prices
(cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
- ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness
The act of filling something with air