popular

adj

1. in demand, wanted, desired, called-for; in favor, favored, received, accepted, approved; in vogue, in fashion, in style, Inf. in, fashionable, stylish, all the rage, Inf. all the thing, Fr. au courant; liked, well-liked, loved, beloved, well-loved; successful, big, Inf. boffo, Inf. box-office; famous, renowned, acclaimed, celebrated, notorious, talked-of, on everybody's lips.

2. public, civic, civil, social, societal; vernacular, vulgar, proletarian, working-class, plebian; secular, lay, laic.

3. common, commonplace, conventional, usual, standard, stock; familiar, accustomed, customary, habitual, wonted, well-known, garden-variety, household; normal, normative, average, everyday, workaday, routine; current, prevalent, prevailing, predominant, predominating; general, widespread, extensive; universal, catholic, ecumenical; rife, rampant, epidemic, pandemic.

4. middlebrow, middle-of-the-road, MOR, middle-class, bourgeois, Inf. straight, Inf. square, Inf. plastic.

5. lowbrow, exoteric, simple, simplified, popularized, geared-down, Inf. pop; commercial, accessible, direct, straightforward, understandable, easily understood, easy to understand.

6. inexpensive, cheap, low-priced, popularly-priced, priced to fit the pocketbook; reasonable, moderate, modest, manageable, within means