populous

[ pop-yuh-luhs ]

adjective

1. full of residents or inhabitants, as a region; heavily populated.
2. jammed or crowded with people:

   There's no more populous place than Times Square on New Year's Eve.

   Synonyms: teeming, packed

3. forming or comprising a large number or quantity:

   Because of epidemics the tribes are not nearly so populous as they once were.

populous

/ ˈpɒpjʊləs /

adjective

1. containing many inhabitants; abundantly populated

Derived Forms

• ˈpopulously, adverb
• ˈpopulousness, noun

Other Words From

• popu·lous·ly adverb
• popu·lous·ness noun
• non·popu·lous adjective
• non·popu·lous·ly adverb
• non·popu·lous·ness noun
• over·popu·lous adjective
• over·popu·lous·ly adverb
• over·popu·lous·ness noun
• un·popu·lous adjective
• un·popu·lous·ly adverb
• un·popu·lous·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of populous¹

1400–50; late Middle English populus < Latin populōsus. See people, -ous

Word History and Origins

Origin of populous¹

C15: from Late Latin populōsus

Example Sentences

In Montgomery County, the state’s most populous jurisdiction, officials rejected the governor’s call in the name of racial equity, focusing on the tens of thousands of health-care workers who remained unvaccinated.

From Washington Post

Los Angeles is the most populous county in the US, with just over 10 million residents.

From Popular-Science

In a news conference Monday, county lawmakers called on the Hogan administration to provide more vaccine doses to Montgomery, the state’s most populous jurisdiction.

From Washington Post

Laschet’s region of NRW, Germany’s most populous state, is one of the country’s hardest hit areas.

From Time

Montgomery County, the state’s most populous jurisdiction, has added 3,057 in the past seven days.

From Washington Post

The technologies of war became more deadly and the planet grew more populous, so the death tolls were often enormous.

From The Daily Beast

In populous Miami-Dade County, bathrooms will be closed in polling places on Election Day.

From The Daily Beast

But a leading gubernatorial candidate from our second-most populous state?

From The Daily Beast

While the mass populous is being pumped with merriment to the point of nausea a single Misfit can be seen in the distance.

From The Daily Beast

Fairfax County, the most populous jurisdiction in the state, was once a Republican bastion.

From The Daily Beast

Full of clamour, a populous city, a joyous city: thy slain are not slain by the sword, nor dead in battle.

From Project Gutenberg

Olinda partook of all these advantages, and was itself the best built and most populous town in Brazil.

From Project Gutenberg

What became of such as Ruth, who had no home and no friends in that large, populous, desolate town?

From Project Gutenberg

Such was the case, and it would be fortunate if large and populous places always found and returned men of such abilities.

From Project Gutenberg

Where was my great commerce that so lately had made these glistening expanses populous and beautiful with its white-winged flocks?

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• crowded
• numerous
• populated
• various