Synonyms Dictionary
3. escalate, step up, give a boost to, U.S. SI. soup up, SI. hop up, Sl. jazz up; exaggerate, overstate, overstress, overdraw, overcolor; augment, supplement, add to, superadd to; magnify, amplify, deepen, heighten; intensify, aggravate, worsen.
4. raise, elevate, boost, advance; rise, mount, ascend, skyrocket; burgeon, shoot up, spring up, sprout.
5. give [s.o.] a swell head, turn [s.o.'s] head, go to [s.o.'s] head, puff up, make proud, elate; flatter, overpraise, lionize; Inf. bootlick, toady to, Inf butter up. inflated, adj. 1. distended, overdistended, dilated, Obs. sufflated; swollen, bloated, puffed out, blown, tumefied, puffy, ballooning; expanded, overexpanded, stretched, stretched out; increased, enlarged, extended, overextended.
2. escalated, stepped-up, Sl. jazzed-up, accelerated; raised, elevated, advanced; exaggerated, overstated, overstressed, overdrawn; magnified, amplified, deepened, heightened; intensified, aggravated, worsened.
3. conceited, puffed-up, egotistic, proud, boastful; self-important, cocky, smug, immodest, self-satisfied; narcissistic, vain; arrogant, haughty, condescending, Inf. toplofty; exultant, cock-a-hoop, elated.
4. bombastic, high-flown, Inf. highfalutin, orotund, fustian, extravagant; pretentious, pompous, stilted, stuffy, declamatory, artificial; pedantic, highbrowed, rhetorical; turgid, flatulent, tumid, overblown; grandiloquent, magniloquent, altisonant, altiloquent. inflation, n. 1. false prosperity, overenlarged currency; runaway prices, high prices, stiff prices, steep prices; stagflation.
2. conceit, conceitedness, egotism, pride, vainglory, vaingloriousness; narcissism, self-love, self-admiration, self-esteem, egocentrism, vanity; self-glorification, self-laudation, self-praise, self-applause; arrogance, haughtiness, self-importance, self-complacency, condescension; pretension, pretentiousness, affected manner, airs, ostentation.
3. bombast, orotundity, fustian, extravagance, rant; pretentiousness, pomposity, pompousness, stuffiness; turgidity, flatulence, tumidness, tumidity; grandiloquence, magniloquence, altiloquence, altisonance; grandiosity, affectation, big talk, ostentation, showiness, flashiness; bragging, boasting, rodomontade.
4. distension, dilatation, dilation, Obs. sufflation; swelling, puffiness, intumescence, tumefaction, blowing up, bloatedness; expansion, stretching, spreading; growth, spread, swell.
5. increase, enlargement, aggrandizement; widening, thickening, broadening; extension, lengthening, prolongation, protraction; addition, accretion, increment, accession, access; augmentation, supplement, annexation, annex; development, enhancement, intensification, exaggeration. inflect, v. 1. curve, bend, turn, loop, round, bow, flex; hook, crook; arch, vault; reflect, reflex; incurve, incurvate; retroflex, recurve, decurve, bend back.
2. modulate, intonate, intone, vocalize, phonate; (all of the voice) vary, alter, diversify, change; accent, accentuate, stress, emphasize; moderate, temper, tone, tone down.
3. Grammar, decline, conjugate, parse, grammaticize, analyze. inflection, n. 1. modulation, phrasing, suspension; pronunciation, articulation, enunciation, utterance, vocalization, voice, voicing, phonation; elocution, diction, dialect, speech pattern, manner of speaking, mode of expression; delivery, presentation, attack, force of utterance.
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