Inflammatory vs Inflation - What's the difference?
inflammatory | inflation |
Tending to inflame or provoke somebody.
Causing or caused by inflammation.
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An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.
(economics) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
(economics) A decline in the value of money.
(economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
(cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorised to have occurred very shortly after the big bang.
As nouns the difference between inflammatory and inflation
is that inflammatory is any material that causes inflammation while inflation is inflation.As an adjective inflammatory
is tending to inflame or provoke somebody.inflammatory
English
Adjective
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Noun
(inflammatories)inflation
English
(wikipedia inflation)Noun
(en noun)- The inflation of the balloon took five hours.