popular
adjective
regarded with favor, approval, or affection by people in general.
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The worst that can be said of the movement is, that it was antipopular, that through it Europe became for the first time sharply divided into the cultivated and uncultivated classes.
From The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt