All inflation synonyms
in·fla·tion
I i noun inflation
- increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- hike — to walk or march a great distance, especially through rural areas, for pleasure, exercise, military training, or the like.
- rise — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- boom — If there is a boom in the economy, there is an increase in economic activity, for example in the amount of things that are being bought and sold.
- prosperity — a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in financial respects; good fortune.
- spread — to draw, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface, as something rolled or folded (often followed by out).
- self-enhancement — to raise to a higher degree; intensify; magnify: The candlelight enhanced her beauty.
- buildup — praise or favorable publicity, esp. when systematic and intended to make something popular, well-known, etc.
- boost — If one thing boosts another, it causes it to increase, improve, or be more successful.
- aggrandizement — If someone does something for aggrandizement, they do it in order to get power, wealth, and importance for themselves.
- tumefaction — an act of making or becoming swollen or tumid.
- distension — the act of distending or the state of being distended.
- puffy — gusty1 .
- intensification — to make intense or more intense.
- swelling — the act of swelling or the condition of being swollen.
- expansion — The action of becoming larger or more extensive.
- aggrandisement — an act or instance of aggrandizing, or increasing in size, or intensity: aggrandizement of mercantile trade in the early colonies.
- enhancement — An increase or improvement in quality, value, or extent.
- enlargement — The action or state of enlarging or being enlarged.
- escalation — A rapid increase; a rise.
- extension — A part that is added to something to enlarge or prolong it; a continuation.