populouspop‧u‧lous /ˈpɒpjələs $ ˈpɑː-/ adjective formal - China is the most populous country in the world.
- As the centre of a miniature shire, Oakham was neither populous nor wealthy.
- It was London where the railway suburbs were numerically the largest and most populous with regular commuters.
- The forest was populous with them.
- The North was a populous, bustling, commercial place, its economy geared to industrial growth.
- Was it right that tiny Delaware should have as many representatives as populous Virginia, Pennsylvania, or Massachusetts?
ADVERB► more· After the wet dark days, the country seems more populous.· The candidates have devoted far more time here than in much more populous states.· The hill country had once been far more populous.
► most· There is no indication that the same is occurring in the world's most populous countries.· The report breaks out statistics from 11 of the most populous states.· The most populous state, California, has nearly fifty representatives while the smallest states have only one.· Clinton won a total of 28 of the 36 Democratic contests, including those in the 10 most populous states.· In California Dianne Feinstein became the first woman to win a major party gubernatorial nomination in the country's most populous state.· Bucharest, the capital and the most populous constituency, was assigned 39 Assembly seats and 14 Senate seats.
NOUN► country· There is no indication that the same is occurring in the world's most populous countries.
► state· The most populous state, California, has nearly fifty representatives while the smallest states have only one.· The report breaks out statistics from 11 of the most populous states.· Clinton won a total of 28 of the 36 Democratic contests, including those in the 10 most populous states.· And among the nine most populous states, only Florida remains in Democratic hands.· In California Dianne Feinstein became the first woman to win a major party gubernatorial nomination in the country's most populous state.· The candidates have devoted far more time here than in much more populous states.· In California, our most populous state, this has been the key fact of recent political history.· Texas supplanted New York as the nation's second-most-populous state.
adjectivepopulated ≠ unpopulatedpopulousnounpopulationverbpopulate