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| Main Entry: |
populous
 [pop-yuh-luhs] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | packed with inhabitants |
| Synonyms: | crawling, crowded, dense, heavily populated, jammed, legion, many, multifarious, multitudinal, multitudinous, numerous, occupied, overpopulated, peopled, populated, settled, several, swarming, teeming, thick, thronged, various, voluminous |
| Notes: | populace is people in general considered as a whole, the general public; populous means densely populated |
| Antonyms: | deserted |
| Main Entry: | large |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | big, abundant |
| Synonyms: | ample, barn door, blimp, booming, broad, bulky, capacious, colossal, comprehensive, considerable, copious, enormous, excessive, exorbitant, extensive, extravagant, full, generous, giant, gigantic, goodly, grand, grandiose, great, gross, hefty, huge, humongous*, immeasurable, immense, jumbo, liberal, massive, monumental, mountainous, plentiful, populous, roomy, sizable, spacious, stupendous, substantial, super, sweeping, thumping, tidy, vast, voluminous, whopping, wide |
| Antonyms: | little, miniature, small, tiny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | legion |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | numerous |
| Synonyms: | countless, many, multifarious, multitudinal, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, populous, several, sundry, various, very many, voluminous |
| Antonyms: | few, numbered |
Example Sentences
- It's an area that's populous and more urban, and so it carries less of a musical history.
- But the picture in the mixed and highly populous center of the country is, if anything, becoming more complicated.
- The media is too sly and the propaganda is too thick for the general populous to decipher the truth.
| Main Entry: | many |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | profuse, abundant |
| Synonyms: | abounding, alive with, bounteous, bountiful, copious, countless, crowded, divers, frequent, innumerable, legion, lousy with, manifold, multifarious, multifold, multiplied, multitudinous, myriad, no end of, numberless, numerous, plentiful, populous, prevalent, rife, several, sundry, teeming, umpteen, uncounted, varied, various |
| Notes: | many means being one of a large indefinite number, while much means great in quantity, degree, or extent many means being one of a large indefinite number; several means of an indefinite number more than 2 or 3 but not many |
| Antonyms: | few, scarce |
| Main Entry: | multiple/multifarious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | diversified, |
| Synonyms: | collective, conglomerate, different, diverse, diversiform, heterogeneous, indiscriminate, legion, manifold, many, miscellaneous assorted, mixed, motley, multiform, multiplex, multitudinal, multitudinous, numerous, populous, several, sundry, varied, variegated, various, voluminous |
| Antonyms: | single, singular, unvaried |
| Main Entry: | multitudinous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | many, considerable |
| Synonyms: | abounding, abundant, considerable, copious, countless, great, heaps, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, legion, manifold, multifarious, myriad, numberless, numerous, populous, profuse, quite a few, several, sundry, teeming, uncountable, uncounted, unnumbered, untold, various, voluminous |
| Antonyms: | few, limited |
| Main Entry: | numerous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | many, abundant |
| Synonyms: | big, copious, diverse, great, infinite, large, legion, lousy with, multifarious, multitudinal, multitudinous, plentiful, populous, profuse, rife, scads, several, sundry, thick, umpteen, various, voluminous, zillion |
| Antonyms: | deficient, few, lacking, little, small |
| Main Entry: | occupied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inhabited; in use |
| Synonyms: | busy, engaged, full, leased, lived-in, peopled, populated, populous, rented, settled, taken, unavailable, utilized |
| Antonyms: | empty, free, uninhabited, unoccupied, vacant |
| Main Entry: | teeming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant, full |
| Synonyms: | alive, brimful, brimming, bristling, bursting, chock-full, crammed, crawling, filled, fruitful, multitudinous, numerous, overflowing, packed, plentiful, populous, pregnant, replete, rife, swarming, thick, thronged |
| Antonyms: | empty, lacking, needing, wanting |
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