inflate

Other forms of inflate

past tense

inflated·

present participle

inflating·

third person

inflates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about inflate

What does inflate mean?

inflate means "exaggerate or make bigger". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inflate?

inflate has 2 syllables: in-flate. The stress falls on "flate". In IPA it is /ɪnˈfleɪt/.

What is another word for inflate?

Close synonyms include blow up, expand, amplify, blow up, balloon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of inflate?

The recorded antonyms are deflate, deflate, deflate.

Is inflate a common word?

inflate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with inflate?

3 words rhyme with inflate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.