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What is the adjective for population?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb populate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

populous
  1. Having a large population.
  2. (of a language) Spoken by a large number of people.
  3. Densely populated.
  4. Crowded with people.
  5. Synonyms:
      6. packed, crowded, swarming, full, teeming, crammed, thronged, crawling, congested, overcrowded, thick, populated, dense, seething, overpopulated, jammed, occupied, peopled, settled, jam-packed, heavily populated, densely populated, thickly populated, like Piccadilly Circus, heavily settled, full of people, tenanted, inhabited, overflowing, mobbed, busy, filled, brimming, cramped, bursting, lived in, abundant, awash, rife, replete, heaving, brimful, crushed, huddled, thronging, bristling, chock-full, elbow-to-elbow, filled to capacity, packed out … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “There is no loneliness so utter as that of a populous city, where every face you meet is that of a stranger.”
      “Being fed up with the madding crowd in one of the country's most populous cities, I wanted to get closer to nature.”
      “The human race is populous enough without trying to preserve every single life.”
populist
  1. Democratic
  2. (of a political policy) Put forward just because it would be popular
  3. Of or pertaining to populism
  4. Synonyms:
      5. accessible, antielitist, democratic, general, mainstream, majority
  5. Examples:
      6. “The popular politician's speech was both engaging and populist, resonating with ordinary citizens and championing their rights.”
populated
  1. Supplied with inhabitants or content.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. populous, inhabited, peopled, occupied, tenanted, settled, lived in, packed, teeming, swarming, crowded, full, thronged, overcrowded, crawling, overpopulated, dense, congested, busy, mobbed, jam-packed, densely populated, like Piccadilly Circus, filled to capacity, full of people, cramped, overflowing, crushed, huddled, packed out, bustling, leased, rented, lived-in, overpeopled, elbow-to-elbow, sold out, standing room only, well frequented, well patronized, crammed, thick, seething, jammed, heavily populated, thickly populated, heavily settled, filled, brimming, bursting … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “This is a populated city. If everything suddenly shuts off and restarts, the shock would be tremendous.”
populational
  1. Of or pertaining to population
populatable
  1. (computing) Able to be populated
populistic
  1. Populist.
  2. Examples:
      3. “To most people it's clear that the Freedom Party and Haider is a very populistic and opportunistic conservative party.”
      “The dramatic outcome of the Chicago Convention of 1896 marked the rise into power of the representatives of populistic change.”
      “The series of conventions opened in Mississippi in 1890, where the populistic whites were perhaps numerically fewest.”
populate
  1. (obsolete) populous
populating
  1. present participle of populate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. peopling, colonising, colonizing, pioneering, settling, occupying, overrunning, filling, living, settling in, opening up, moving into, taking up residence in, inhabiting, establishing a colony in, founding, migrating, immigrating, transplanting, hegemonizing, putting down roots in, coming in, going in, moving in, living in, dwelling in, residing in, establishing oneself in, moving to, relocating to, being, residing, staying, dwelling, lodging, tenanting, ensconcing, using, lodging in … more
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