populous
Adjective Satellite
- densely populated
Adj
- Having a large population.
- Spoken by a large number of people.
- Densely populated.
- Crowded with people.
Adjective
- Having a large population; densely inhabited.
Examples
- Airport departure halls are often populous places during the rush hours.
- China is the most populous country in the world.
- Chinese is the most populous language.
- The board became quite populous after several rounds of long, intersecting words.
- The Nile delta is a populous region.
Origin / Etymology
First used in English in the mid 15th century; from Latin populosus (“full of people, populous”).
Synonyms
thickly settled
Scrabble Score: 12
populous: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordpopulous: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
populous: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 17
populous: valid Words With Friends Word