populous
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Populous \Pop"u*lous\, a. [L. populosus, fr. populus people: cf.
F. populeux.]
1. Abounding in people; full of inhabitants; containing many
inhabitants in proportion to the extent of the country.
[1913 Webster]
Heaven, yet populous, retains
Number sufficient to possess her realms. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
2. Popular; famous. [Obs.] --J. Webster.
[1913 Webster]
3. Common; vulgar. [Obs.] --Arden of Feversham.
[1913 Webster]
4. Numerous; in large number. [Obs.] "The dust . . . raised
by your populous troops." --Shak.
[1913 Webster] -- {Pop"u*lous*ly}, adv. --
{Pop"u*lous*ness}, n.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "populous":
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
[email protected]