| Populous 1. (a.) Abounding in people; full of inhabitants; containing many inhabitants in proportion to the extent of the country. 2. (a.) Popular; famous. 3. (a.) Common; vulgar. 4. (a.) Numerous; in large number. Thesaurus Entries alive with, bristling, bursting, close, colonized, compact, crammed, crawling, crowded, crowding, dense, empeopled, firm, full, in profusion, inhabited, jam-packed, jammed, lavish, legion, multifarious, multitudinal, multitudinous, numerous, occupied, overflowing, packed, peopled, populated, prodigal, profuse, proliferating, prolific, rife, serried, settled, several, solid, studded, sundry, superabundant, swarming, teeming, tenanted, thick, thick as hail, thick with, thick-coming, thronged, thronging, various, voluminous | ![]() |