Antonyms for inflation
ɪnˈfleɪ ʃənin·fla·tion

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. inflationnoun

   Antonyms:
   deflation

2. inflationnoun

   The inflation of the balloon took five hours.

   Antonyms:
   deflation

3. inflationnoun

   Antonyms:
   deflation

4. inflationnoun

   Antonyms:
   deflation

5. inflationnoun

   Antonyms:
   deflation

6. inflationnoun

   Antonyms:
   deflation

7. inflationnoun

   Antonyms:
   deflation

Matched Categories

1. • Cosmology
   • Expansion
   • Explosion
   • Inelegance

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.0 / 3 votes

1. inflation, rising pricesnoun

   a general and progressive increase in prices

   "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money"

   Antonyms:
   deflation, disinflation

   Synonyms:
   puffiness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, ostentation, splashiness, ostentatiousness, rising prices

2. inflationnoun

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

   Antonyms:
   disinflation, deflation

   Synonyms:
   puffiness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, ostentation, splashiness, ostentatiousness, rising prices

3. ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, inflationnoun

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

   Antonyms:
   deflation, disinflation

   Synonyms:
   swelling, puffiness, fanfare, pomposity, flash, pretension, rising prices, largeness, pretentiousness, ostentation, splashiness, lump, ostentatiousness, pompousness

4. inflationnoun

   the act of filling something with air

   Antonyms:
   deflation, disinflation

   Synonyms:
   puffiness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, ostentation, splashiness, ostentatiousness, rising prices

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. inflationnoun

   Synonyms:
   distention, expansion

How to use inflation in a sentence?

1. John Leer:

   One of the things that we’ve seen is that wage growth has been fairly strong and there’s the fear that wage growth is going to ultimately drive inflation higher, so the Federal Reserve wants to raise interest rates to try to curb the demand for workers and hopefully bring down wages, which in fact will then ultimately bring down inflation.

2. The Labor Department on Tuesday:

   But the broader trend supports what we believe – and what’s been echoed by everyone from the Federal Reserve to the markets, and private-sector forecasters – that inflation is transitory as we recover from the pandemic.

3. Leonardo Villar:

   (The board) recognizes the risks that the deviation of inflation expectations from the target will become a persistent phenomenon.

4. Jerome Powell:

   We no longer state that we anticipate that ongoing rate increases will be appropriate to quell inflation, instead, we now anticipate some additional policy firming may be appropriate.

5. Stefan Ingves:

   One should not put too much emphasis on that number, inflation is way below our target of 2 percent, but on the other hand we just do not see deflation around the corner.

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