Entry Word: popular

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 enjoying widespread favor or approval <bell-bottom jeans were popular in the seventies>

Synonyms fashionable, hot, in, modish, popularized, vogue

Related Words favorite, preferred; desirable, liked, wanted; celebrated, famed, famous, noted, notorious, prominent, renowned, well-known; fabled, fabulous, legendary; leading, notable, outstanding, remarkable; important, significant

Near Antonyms washed-up; despised, detested, disliked, hated, rejected; insignificant, unimportant; indistinguished, unexceptional; anonymous, nameless, obscure, unknown; inconspicuous

Antonyms out, unpopular

2 accepted, used, or practiced by most people <the popular custom of exchanging greeting cards during the holiday season> — see current 1
3 held by or applicable to a majority of the people <popular opinion on that issue has changed over the years> — see general 3
4 of, relating to, or favoring political democracy <a truly popular revolution, not one that replaced one dictatorship with another> — see democratic