Adjective popular has 5 senses
- popular - regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public; "a popular tourist attraction"; "a popular girl"; "cabbage patch dolls are no longer popular"
Antonyms: unpopular, less-traveled
- popular - carried on by or for the people (or citizens) at large; "the popular vote"; "popular representation"; "institutions of popular government"
Antonym: undemocratic (indirect, via democratic)
- democratic, popular - representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large; "democratic art forms"; "a democratic or popular movement"; "popular thought"; "popular science"; "popular fiction"
Antonym: uncommon (indirect, via common)
- plain, popular - comprehensible to the general public; "written for the popular press in plain nontechnical language"
Antonym: specific (indirect, via general, nonspecific)
- popular, pop - (of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people)
Antonym: classical (indirect, via nonclassical)
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