Definition of popular

"popular" in the adjective sense

1. popular

regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public

"a popular tourist attraction"

"a popular girl"

"cabbage patch dolls are no longer popular"

2. popular

carried on by or for the people (or citizens) at large

"the popular vote"

"popular representation"

"institutions of popular government"

3. democratic, popular

representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large

"democratic art forms"

"a democratic or popular movement"

"popular thought"

"popular science"

"popular fiction"

4. popular, pop

of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people)

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Quotations for popular

The breath of popular applause. [ Herrick ]

Fame is the breath of popular applause. [ Herrick ]

Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked. [ Yogi Berra ]

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. [ Proverb ]

A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it because it is right. [ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr ]

The popular ear weighs what you are, not what you were. [ Quarles ]

O popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? [ Cowper ]

Faction and enthusiasm are the instruments by which popular governments are destroyed. [ Ames ]

Many men and many women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not. [ Chamfort ]

I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him. [ Goethe ]

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull. [ Beaconsfield ]

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained. [ James A. Garfield ]

It is on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular. [ Hume ]

The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl. Ah! the world, that cruel step-mother, beats the poor child the harder to make him shed more pearls. [ Heinrich Heine ]

Health - the silliest word in our language, and one knows the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men; he may be brilliant, entertaining, popular; but he will want weight. No soulmoving picture was ever painted that had not in it depth of shadow. [ Peter Bayne ]

popular in Scrabble®

The word popular is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters popular:

POPULAR
(94 = 44 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

popular

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word popular

POPULAR
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POPULAR
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POPULAR
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POPULAR
(62 = 12 + 50)

The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In popular

POPULAR
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POPULAR
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POPULAR
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POPULAR
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popular in Words With Friends™

The word popular is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 15

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters popular:

POPULAR
(128 = 93 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

popular

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word popular

POPULAR
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POPULAR
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In popular

POPULAR
(128 = 93 + 35)
POPULAR
(104 = 69 + 35)
POPULAR
(98 = 63 + 35)
POPULAR
(98 = 63 + 35)
POPULAR
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2 letter words in popular (5 words)

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popular + 1 blank (1 word)

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