Another word for popular

What is another word for Popular?

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  common, property

Use filters to view other words, we have 1463 synonyms for popular.

How does the adjective popular contrast with its synonyms?

Some common synonyms of popular are common, familiar, ordinary, plain, and vulgar. While all these words mean «generally met with and not in any way special, strange, or unusual,» popular applies to what is accepted by or prevalent among people in general sometimes in contrast to upper classes or special groups.

When is it sensible to use common instead of popular?

While the synonyms common and popular are close in meaning, common implies usual everyday quality or frequency of occurrence and may additionally suggest inferiority or coarseness.

When would familiar be a good substitute for popular?

In some situations, the words familiar and popular are roughly equivalent. However, familiar stresses the fact of being generally known and easily recognized.

When might ordinary be a better fit than popular?

While in some cases nearly identical to popular, ordinary stresses conformance in quality or kind with the regular order of things.

In what contexts can plain take the place of popular?

The words plain and popular can be used in similar contexts, but plain is likely to suggest homely simplicity.

How are the words vulgar and popular related?

Vulgar, otherwise similar to popular, is likely to carry derogatory connotations (as of inferiority or coarseness).

What is another word for popular?

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• adj.

  • accepted (adjective)

  • received,
  • card-carrying,
  • arrived at,
  • Passed.

  • all (adjective)

  • popular.

  • arty (adjective)

  • imitative,
  • Flaunting,
  • Popularized,
  • pretentious.

  • average (adjective)

  • mean.

  • beloved (adjective)

  • be-loved,
  • more revered,
  • near one heart,
  • near ones heart,
  • doted on,
  • more prized,
  • near heart,
  • more treasured,
  • most wellliked,
  • most worshiped,
  • most respected,
  • more wellliked,
  • near one’s heart,
  • near to one heart,
  • most esteemed,
  • more idolized,
  • most prized,
  • fairhaired,
  • most endeared,
  • sweeter,
  • well liked,
  • more worshiped,
  • most cherished,
  • near to ones heart,
  • most well-liked,
  • most well liked,
  • most admired,
  • be loved,
  • more well liked,
  • more well-liked,
  • hallowed,
  • more venerated,
  • fair haired,
  • most venerated,
  • more cherished,
  • most treasured,
  • end eared,
  • near to heart,
  • more admired,
  • most darling,
  • more esteemed,
  • most revered,
  • most idolized,
  • end-eared,
  • sweetest,
  • more endeared,
  • wellliked,
  • most beloved,
  • more darling.

  • big (adjective)

  • heavyduty,
  • heavyweight,
  • powerful,
  • most valuable,
  • more heavy duty,
  • most heavy-duty,
  • heavy duty,
  • para-mount,
  • more serious,
  • most heavyduty,
  • most heavy duty,
  • more heavyduty,
  • more heavy-duty,
  • para mount.

  • catchy (adjective)

  • fetching,
  • memorable,
  • having a good hook.

  • celebrated (adjective)

  • outstanding,
  • laureate,
  • numero uno,
  • pre-eminent,
  • out-standing,
  • up there,
  • highpowered.

  • cheap (adjective)

  • cheap,
  • economical,
  • low-priced.

  • choice (adjective)

  • first class,
  • solid gold,
  • hand-picked,
  • rarest,
  • top-drawer,
  • firstclass,
  • top drawer,
  • elect.

  • chosen (adjective)

  • more pegged,
  • Pegged,
  • pickest,
  • most pegged,
  • more conscript,
  • got the nod,
  • most picked,
  • more tabbed,
  • picker,
  • got nod,
  • most conscript,
  • most tabbed,
  • more picked.

  • colloquial (adjective)

  • everyday,
  • jive.

  • commercial (adjective)

  • tradest,
  • most wholesaling,
  • most sales,
  • re-tailing,
  • more saleable,
  • more wholesaling,
  • more market,
  • most bartering,
  • across counter,
  • more trading,
  • more sales,
  • profit making,
  • most supplying,
  • most saleable,
  • in market,
  • most market,
  • more supplying,
  • most profitmaking,
  • re-tail,
  • most trading,
  • more profit-making,
  • ex change,
  • supplying,
  • more retailing,
  • most retailing,
  • saleable,
  • re tailing,
  • more exchange,
  • more mercantile,
  • pecuniary,
  • more bartering,
  • most commissary,
  • most exchange,
  • more profitmaking,
  • more profit making,
  • most retail,
  • most mercantile,
  • re tail,
  • most profit making,
  • more commissary,
  • most profit-making,
  • most merchandising,
  • more retail,
  • more merchandising.

  • common (adjective)

  • more communistic,
  • inter-mutual,
  • more correspondent,
  • more socialistic,
  • most conjunct,
  • most socialistic,
  • most community,
  • most intermutual,
  • co incident,
  • more conjunct,
  • more commutual,
  • co-incident,
  • inter mutual,
  • most correspondent,
  • more community,
  • more intermutual,
  • most commutual,
  • most communistic.

  • common, standard (adjective)

  • proletarian,
  • Familiar,
  • adopted,
  • regnant,
  • stock,
  • ubiquitous,
  • Demanded,
  • Embraced,
  • general,
  • rampant,
  • universal.

  • conventional (adjective)

  • buttondown,
  • more tralatitious,
  • habitual,
  • more ritual,
  • most ritual,
  • pre dominant,
  • pre-dominant,
  • stereo-typed,
  • stereo typed,
  • most tralatitious.

  • current (adjective)

  • in mainstream,
  • doinger,
  • pre sent,
  • most cutting-edge,
  • swinging,
  • most cuttingedge,
  • in news,
  • faddest,
  • most leading edge,
  • more cuttingedge,
  • doingest,
  • nower,
  • cuttingedge,
  • nowest,
  • more cutting-edge,
  • present day,
  • more leadingedge,
  • instant,
  • more leading edge,
  • most leadingedge,
  • pre-sent,
  • presentday,
  • most cutting edge,
  • most leading-edge,
  • fadder,
  • leadingedge,
  • more cutting edge,
  • more leading-edge.

  • customary (adjective)

  • standard operating procedure,
  • under-stood,
  • frequent,
  • more frequent,
  • more regulation,
  • more stipulated,
  • most stipulated,
  • under stood,
  • prescriptive,
  • in groove,
  • most regulation.

  • democratic (adjective)

  • individualistic,
  • libertarian,
  • self-ruling.

  • fashionable (adjective)

  • trig,
  • faddy,
  • in-thing,
  • all the rage,
  • trendsetting,
  • swank,
  • a go-go,
  • vogue,
  • latest,
  • in style,
  • Tony,
  • in thing,
  • upscale.

  • favorite (adjective)

  • more best loved,
  • more sweetheart,
  • more wished for,
  • most best-loved,
  • most best loved,
  • most desired,
  • bestloved,
  • best loved,
  • most sweetheart,
  • more wishedfor,
  • most adored,
  • more bestloved,
  • de sired,
  • most bestloved,
  • most wished-for,
  • de-sired,
  • more adored,
  • personal,
  • more wished-for,
  • most wished for,
  • most wishedfor,
  • more desired,
  • more best-loved,
  • wishedfor.

  • general (adjective)

  • most matter of course,
  • un eventful,
  • more matter-of-course,
  • matter-of-course,
  • more matter of course,
  • most matter-of-course,
  • un-eventful,
  • ex tensive.

  • hot (adjective)

  • recent,
  • just out,
  • sought after,
  • sought-after.

  • human (adjective)

  • social,
  • human,
  • familial,
  • communal,
  • folk,
  • mortal.

  • in (adjective)

  • up minute,
  • up the minute,
  • up to minute.

  • inexpensive (adjective)

  • lowcost,
  • halfprice,
  • most cutrate,
  • dime dozen,
  • more budget,
  • buyest,
  • in-expensive,
  • more half price,
  • more dirtcheap,
  • most bargain,
  • low priced,
  • more cut-rate,
  • more cutrate,
  • more cut rate,
  • most budget,
  • more half-price,
  • most dirt cheap,
  • lowpriced,
  • more dirt cheap,
  • for song,
  • most dirt-cheap,
  • more halfprice,
  • in expensive,
  • dirtcheap,
  • stealest,
  • most half price,
  • cutrate,
  • most half-price,
  • most cut-rate,
  • low cost,
  • cost next nothing,
  • most halfprice,
  • more dirt-cheap,
  • more bargain,
  • most dirtcheap,
  • most cut rate.

  • leading (adjective)

  • head most,
  • fore most,
  • in-augural,
  • fore-most,
  • more inaugural,
  • in augural,
  • more headmost,
  • head-most,
  • most inaugural,
  • top-pest,
  • stellar,
  • most headmost.

  • mainstream (adjective)

  • mainstream.

  • mean (adjective)

  • medial.

  • medium (adjective)

  • SOSO,
  • inter mediate,
  • more fairish,
  • most fairish,
  • parrest,
  • so so,
  • parrer.

  • newfangled (adjective)

  • modernistic,
  • newfangled,
  • most novel,
  • Neoteric,
  • gimmicky,
  • new-fashioned,
  • Newfashioned.

  • normal (adjective)

  • un exceptional,
  • un-exceptional.

  • noted (adjective)

  • more somebody,
  • more redoubted,
  • most somebody,
  • most redoubted,
  • more celeb,
  • namest,
  • re doubted,
  • re-doubted,
  • most celeb.

  • notorious (adjective)

  • dis-reputable,
  • ill famed,
  • illfamed,
  • un-disputed,
  • dis-honorable,
  • more ill-famed,
  • wanted,
  • most ill famed,
  • un disputed,
  • unadmirable belled,
  • dis reputable,
  • more illfamed,
  • in famous,
  • most ill-famed,
  • more ill famed,
  • dis honorable,
  • most illfamed.

  • old school (adjective)

  • longestablished,
  • long-established,
  • more longestablished,
  • more long-established,
  • long established,
  • most long established,
  • most long-established,
  • most longestablished,
  • more long established.

  • ordinary (adjective)

  • stocker.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)

  • in use,
  • ordinary,
  • all-embracing,
  • trendy,
  • tralatitious,
  • up-to-date,
  • tabbed,
  • run of the mill,
  • today,
  • in circulation,
  • old school,
  • fashionable,
  • societal,
  • by numbers,
  • not private,
  • faddish,
  • highly valued,
  • dirt cheap,
  • in the limelight,
  • in progress,
  • in common,
  • in the public eye,
  • Redoubted,
  • fairish,
  • widely known,
  • rager,
  • dirt-cheap,
  • half-price,
  • topical,
  • heavy-duty,
  • REDHOT,
  • unremarkable,
  • prominent,
  • in established usage,
  • vulgar,
  • lowborn,
  • well-known,
  • time-honored,
  • bigtime,
  • celebrated,
  • staple,
  • decided upon,
  • standard,
  • high-profile,
  • colloquial,
  • doctrinal,
  • world-class,
  • preferred,
  • without charge,
  • accepted,
  • ill-famed,
  • settled upon,
  • traditional,
  • ruling,
  • on front burner,
  • singled out,
  • vernacular,
  • normal,
  • real steal,
  • urban,
  • well-thought-of,
  • world class,
  • button down,
  • du jour,
  • real buy,
  • celeb,
  • cutting-edge,
  • Headmost,
  • in limelight,
  • popularly priced,
  • choice,
  • in fashion,
  • unanimous,
  • chosen,
  • widespread,
  • hot,
  • socialistic,
  • in the groove,
  • catchy,
  • hip,
  • in demand,
  • garden variety,
  • profit-making,
  • well-liked,
  • customary,
  • conventional,
  • Prepotent,
  • Intermutual,
  • widely used,
  • in a rut,
  • bigshot,
  • common knowledge,
  • going around,
  • common,
  • favorite,
  • big-shot,
  • cost next to nothing,
  • super colossal,
  • in rut,
  • medium,
  • cut rate,
  • beloved,
  • in the market,
  • leading-edge,
  • notorious,
  • red hot,
  • cared for,
  • of note,
  • current,
  • old line,
  • set apart,
  • best-loved,
  • working-class,
  • for a song,
  • mercantile,
  • near to one’s heart,
  • across the counter,
  • same old,
  • marked down,
  • up to the minute,
  • in the news,
  • unadmirable one belled,
  • plebeian,
  • inexpensive,
  • rife,
  • handpicked,
  • namer,
  • latest word,
  • arty,
  • boilerplate,
  • noted,
  • conjunct,
  • cut-rate,
  • democratic,
  • federal,
  • for sale,
  • highly regarded,
  • Commutual,
  • commercial,
  • profitmaking,
  • half price,
  • wholesaling,
  • big-name,
  • prevalent,
  • in the mainstream,
  • superstar,
  • wished-for,
  • communistic,
  • public.

  • plebeian (adjective)

  • more workingclass,
  • more working-class,
  • most proletarian,
  • most working class,
  • un refined,
  • un-cultivated,
  • most workingclass,
  • un washed,
  • more lowborn,
  • un-washed,
  • most lowborn,
  • more proletarian,
  • more working class,
  • un sophisticated,
  • un-refined,
  • workingclass,
  • un cultivated,
  • most working-class.

  • preferred (adjective)

  • more culled,
  • more adopted,
  • most adopted,
  • more preferred,
  • decided up on,
  • most culled,
  • most fancied,
  • settled up on,
  • more fancied.

  • prepotent (adjective)

  • pre potent,
  • pre-potent.

  • prevailing (adjective)

  • most predominating,
  • more all embracing,
  • pre-vailing,
  • allembracing,
  • pre vailing,
  • most all embracing,
  • most preponderating,
  • worldwide,
  • more preponderating,
  • all embracing,
  • more all-embracing,
  • more predominating,
  • pre-dominating,
  • pre dominating,
  • most allembracing,
  • most all-embracing.

  • prevalent (adjective)

  • more prevalent.

  • prominent (adjective)

  • more high profile,
  • more bigname,
  • most high profile,
  • most big name,
  • more well thought of,
  • more underlined,
  • more worldclass,
  • bigleague,
  • more high-profile,
  • most high-profile,
  • most big shot,
  • more world-class,
  • most bigshot,
  • more big-shot,
  • most big-shot,
  • most world-class,
  • more highprofile,
  • more big shot,
  • more well-thought-of,
  • under lined,
  • more big-name,
  • most world class,
  • most highprofile,
  • bigname,
  • more world class,
  • more big name,
  • worldclass,
  • most well thought of,
  • most underlined,
  • under-lined,
  • most worldclass,
  • most well-thought-of,
  • most bigname,
  • more bigshot,
  • more prominent,
  • highprofile,
  • well thought of,
  • most big-name.

  • public (adjective)

  • ex-posed,
  • published,
  • stater,
  • statest,
  • free all,
  • most government,
  • ex posed,
  • un-restricted,
  • more government,
  • opendoor,
  • most federal,
  • more federal,
  • free to all,
  • un restricted.

  • reputable (adjective)

  • famous,
  • fabled,
  • exalted,
  • in high favor,
  • acclaimed,
  • reputed,
  • renowned,
  • notable,
  • Famed,
  • of good repute,
  • preeminent,
  • high-principled,
  • remarkable,
  • salt of earth,
  • mythical,
  • elevated,
  • legendary,
  • distinguished,
  • esteemed,
  • noteworthy,
  • pronounced,
  • salt of the earth,
  • illustrious.

  • rife (adjective)

  • thronged.

  • ruling (adjective)

  • preponderant.

  •

  • grouper,
  • in formative,
  • in-formative,
  • groupest.

  • standard (adjective)

  • more boilerplate,
  • most boilerplate.

  • stylish (adjective)

  • style.

  • time-honored (adjective)

  • Folker,
  • folkest,
  • time honored,
  • timehonored,
  • taken for granted.

  • traditional (adjective)

  • pre scribed,
  • un written,
  • most transmitted,
  • more transmitted,
  • most doctrinal,
  • pre-scribed,
  • un-written,
  • more doctrinal.

  • trendy (adjective)

  • voguish,
  • with-it.

  • trig (adjective)

  • trigger.

  • unanimous (adjective)

  • consentient,
  • consensual,
  • as one,
  • unquestioned,
  • concordant,
  • with one voice,
  • in complete accord,
  • with voice,
  • of one mind.

  •

  • cut and dried.

  • up-to-date (adjective)

  • more abreast,
  • brand new,
  • more happening,
  • more today,
  • most happening,
  • state of art,
  • most abreast,
  • most up,
  • brandnew,
  • up to date,
  • more faddish,
  • avant garde,
  • avantgarde,
  • most today,
  • state the art,
  • state art,
  • most faddish,
  • more up.

  • urban (adjective)

  • towner,
  • Oppidan,
  • inner-city,
  • Burghal,
  • nonrural.

  • vernacular (adjective)

  • plebian,
  • more plebian,
  • most plebian,
  • in-grained.

  • vogue (adjective)

  • ragest.

  • well-known (adjective)

  • super starrer,
  • wellknown,
  • in public eye,
  • super-star,
  • super-starrer,
  • super-starrest,
  • superstarrest,
  • well known,
  • super star,
  • super starrest,
  • superstarrer.

  • well-known, favorite (adjective)

  • suitable,
  • thing,
  • Praised,
  • caught on,
  • in favor,
  • attractive,
  • selling,
  • sought,
  • run-after,
  • the rage,
  • approved,
  • right stuff,
  • okay,
  • now,
  • lovable,
  • pleasing,
  • Promoted,
  • likable,
  • in vogue,
  • crowd-pleasing,
  • stylish,
  • liked.

  • widespread (adjective)

  • outspread,
  • wall-to-wall,
  • all over the place,
  • across the board,
  • on a large scale.

• n.

  •
  • prevailing,
  • top-rated,
  • much loved/respected/admired/criticized etc..
  •
  • bourgeois,
  • private,
  • simplified,
  • lay,
  • accessible.
  •
  • mass,
  • republican.
  •
  • knowledge.
  •
  • like.
  •
  • politics,
  • specific.
  •
  • money.

  • best-selling (noun)

  • best-selling.

  • in demand (noun)

  • demand.

  • music (noun)

  • Melodies,
  • music,
  • populars,
  • instrumentals,
  • singing,
  • ragtime,
  • moderns,
  • heavy metal,
  • bebop,
  • plainsong,
  • operas,
  • classicals,
  • rock and roll.

  • nonclassical (noun)

  • nonclassical.

  • plain (noun)

  • plain.

  • pop (noun)

  • pop.

  • popular (noun)

  • favourite,
  • touristed,
  • touristy,
  • popular with.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • desirable,
  • radical,
  • set,
  • muddle-headed,
  • privately,
  • mistaken,
  • strictly,
  • discretionary,
  • defensible,
  • preconceived,
  • vox pop,
  • inductive,
  • thoughtfully,
  • literal,
  • innermost,
  • subjective,
  • threadbare,
  • black and white,
  • introspective,
  • technical,
  • holistic,
  • orthodox,
  • competing,
  • central,
  • loud,
  • inmost,
  • optimistic,
  • circular,
  • profound,
  • ideological,
  • messianic,
  • popularize,
  • nonconformist,
  • thematic,
  • revisionist,
  • skewed,
  • abstract,
  • psychology,
  • utopian,
  • warmed-over,
  • contradictory,
  • confucian,
  • thought-out,
  • metaphysical,
  • demotic,
  • elegant,
  • compatible,
  • conceptual,
  • mechanistic,
  • deep,
  • deterministic,
  • reputable,
  • uncontroversial,
  • ahistorical,
  • utilitarian,
  • critical,
  • technically,
  • commonly,
  • simplistic,
  • theoretical,
  • experiential,
  • strict,
  • critically,
  • contagious,
  • well-received,
  • anthropocentric.
  •
  • big,
  • ingrained,
  • absolutist,
  • cult,
  • popularly,
  • positivist,
  • thoughtful,
  • weak,
  • viral,
  • populist.
  •
  • favored,
  • fixed,
  • leading.
  •
  • in.
  •
  • moderate.
  •
  • reasonable.
  •
  • modest.

  • campy

  • camp.

  • marketable

  • salable.

  • modish

  • rage.

  • prevalent

  • air.

  • wanted

  • requested.

  • white-collar

  • middle class.

How to use «Popular» in context?

In today’s society, it can be tough to differentiate between what is popular and what is good. But popularity is not always indicative of quality. For example, the so-called «Top 10 Songs of All Time» compiled by Rolling Stone magazine is not necessarily the best or even the most popular songs of all time. Whereas some of the older and less popular songs, such as Jimi Hendrix’s «All Along the Watchtower,» might be counted as some of the best ever written. Popularity is relative, and what may be popular one day may be unmentionable the next.

Paraphrases for Popular:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    fashionable.
  • Proper noun, singular
    populaire, populaires.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    folk, populaire.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    unpopular.
  • Proper noun, singular
    popularity.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    appreciative, attractive, celebrated, cherished, desirable, favorite, favourite, general, generalised, kangaroo, notorious, outreach, prestigious, prevailing, prevalence, prominent, successful, Familiar, well-liked, Favoured, grass-root.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    working.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    best-selling, commonplace, frequent, grassroots, pervasive, prevalent, secular, sought-after, tabloid, trendy, welcome, Popularized, Popularizing, Prized, well-received, working-class, all-people.
  • Proper noun, singular
    folk, grassroots.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    popularity.

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