| Main Entry: | inflation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | increase, swelling |
Synonyms: |
aggrandizement, blowing up, boom, boost, buildup, distension, enhancement, enlargement, escalation, expansion, extension, hike, intensification, prosperity, puffiness, rise, spread, tumefaction |
Antonyms: |
compression, decrease, deflation, shrinkage |
| Main Entry: | accumulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gathering or amassing |
Synonyms: |
accession, accretion, addition, agglomeration, aggrandizement, aggregation, amassment, augmentation, build-up, chunk, collecting, collection, conglomeration, enlargement, gob, growth, heap, hoarding, hunk, increase, inflation, intensification, mass, multiplication, pile, quantity, stack, stock, store, trove, up, upping |
Antonyms: |
dispersal, dispersion, dissipation, scattering |
| Main Entry: | appreciation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | increase in worth |
Synonyms: |
enhancement, gain, growth, improvement, inflation, rise |
Antonyms: |
decrease, depreciation, loss |
| Main Entry: | augmentation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | making greater; improving |
Synonyms: |
accession, accretion, addition, amplification, beefing up, boost, buildup, development, enhancement, enlargement, enrichment, expansion, extension, fleshing out, growth, heightening, hike, increase, increment, inflation, intensification, magnification, multiplication, raise, reinforcement, rise, strengthening, swelling, up, upping |
Antonyms: |
decrease, degradation |
| Main Entry: | boom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prosperity |
Synonyms: |
advance, boost, development, expansion, gain, growth, improvement, increase, inflation, jump, prosperousness, push, rush, spurt, upsurge, upswing, upturn |
Antonyms: |
collapse, failure, loss |
| Main Entry: | depression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | economic decline |
Synonyms: |
bad times, bankruptcy, bear market, big trouble, bottom out, bust, crash, crisis, deflation, dislocation, downturn, drop, failure, hard times, inactivity, inflation, overproduction, panic, paralysis, rainy days, recession, retrenchment, sag, slide, slowness, slump, stagflation, stagnation, unemployment |
Antonyms: |
recovery, surge |
| Main Entry: | euphemism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nice way of saying something |
Synonyms: |
circumlocution, delicacy, floridness, grandiloquence, inflation, pomposity, pretense, purism |
| Notes: | dysphemism is the substitution of a disagreeable word or phrase for a neutral or positive one (also a word or phrase so substituted); it is the opposite of euphemism |
| Main Entry: | exaggeration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overstatement, embellishment |
Synonyms: |
aggrandizement, amplification, baloney, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story, flight of fancy, hogwash, hyperbole, inflation, jazz, line*, magnification, misjudgment, misrepresentation, overemphasis, overestimation, pretension, pretentiousness, rant, romance, stretch, tall story, untruth, whopper, yarn |
Antonyms: |
minimization, reduction, understatement, unembellishment |
| Main Entry: | expansion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | growth |
Synonyms: |
amplification, augmentation, breadth, development, diffusion, dilation, distance, distension, enlargement, evolution, expanse, extension, increase, inflation, magnification, maturation, multiplication, opening out, space, spread, stretch, swelling, unfolding, unfurling |
Antonyms: |
lessening, shrinkage, stagnation |
| Main Entry: | fatness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overweight |
Synonyms: |
adiposity, breadth, bulkiness, corpulence, distension, flab, flesh, fleshiness, girth, grossness, heaviness, heftiness, inflation, largeness, obesity, plumpness, portliness, protuberance, pudginess, rotundity, size, stoutness, tumidity, weight |
Antonyms: |
skinniness, slimness, thinness, underweight |