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synonyms for populous

  • crowded
  • numerous
  • populated
  • various
  • crawling
  • dense
  • heavily populated
  • jammed
  • legion
  • many
  • multifarious
  • multitudinal
  • multitudinous
  • occupied
  • overpopulated
  • peopled
  • settled
  • several
  • swarming
  • teeming
  • thick
  • thronged
  • voluminous

antonyms for populous

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  • deserted
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How to use populous in a sentence

In Montgomery County, the state’s most populous jurisdiction, officials rejected the governor’s call in the name of racial equity, focusing on the tens of thousands of health-care workers who remained unvaccinated.
CONFUSION AND CHAOS: INSIDE THE VACCINE ROLLOUT IN D.C., MARYLAND AND VIRGINIAJULIE ZAUZMER, GREGORY S. SCHNEIDER, ERIN COXFEBRUARY 9, 2021WASHINGTON POST
Los Angeles is the most populous county in the US, with just over 10 million residents.
5 GRAPHS THAT SHOW HOW BAD COVID-19 IS IN LA COUNTYSARA CHODOSHJANUARY 26, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCE
In a news conference Monday, county lawmakers called on the Hogan administration to provide more vaccine doses to Montgomery, the state’s most populous jurisdiction.
CORONAVIRUS VACCINATION APPOINTMENTS CANCELED IN D.C. REGION AS HEALTH OFFICIALS CONFRONT SCARCE SUPPLYJENNA PORTNOY, RACHEL CHASON, REBECCA TAN, HANNAH NATANSONJANUARY 25, 2021WASHINGTON POST
Laschet’s region of NRW, Germany’s most populous state, is one of the country’s hardest hit areas.
ANGELA MERKEL'S CDU PARTY IS CHOOSING A NEW LEADER. WHOEVER WINS MIGHT BECOME GERMANY'S NEXT CHANCELLORMADELINE ROACHEJANUARY 14, 2021TIME
Montgomery County, the state’s most populous jurisdiction, has added 3,057 in the past seven days.
CORONAVIRUS CASELOAD AVERAGE SETS ANOTHER RECORD IN WASHINGTON REGIONRACHEL CHASON, JENNA PORTNOYJANUARY 7, 2021WASHINGTON POST
Authorities do at least appear to be top of controlling virus clusters in Australia’s two-most populous states, with New South Wales on Tuesday recording four new locally acquired cases from the day before, while Victoria had three.
WHEN WILL INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL RESUME? ONE AIRLINE IS BETTING ON JULY 2021CLAIRE ZILLMAN, REPORTERJANUARY 5, 2021FORTUNE
This has happened time and again in Honolulu County, which oversees Oahu, the state’s most populous island.
OFFICIALS LET HAWAII’S WATERFRONT HOMEOWNERS DAMAGE PUBLIC BEACHES AGAIN AND AGAINBY SOPHIE COCKE, HONOLULU STAR-ADVERTISERDECEMBER 31, 2020PROPUBLICA
Kerrey did win the state’s two most populous counties, but not much else, which has now become an all too familiar pattern for Democrats running in Nebraska.
WHAT DEMOCRATS CAN LEARN FROM NEBRASKA’S SHIFT TO THE RIGHTROSS BENES (ROSSBENES@GMAIL.COM)DECEMBER 30, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
Indonesia, for example—the world’s fourth most populous country—doesn’t have the cold-chain infrastructure required to store and distribute the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, but it does have the technology required to distribute Sinopharm’s vaccine.
A CHINESE DRUGMAKER SAYS ITS COVID-19 VACCINE CANDIDATE IS 79% EFFECTIVENAOMI XU ELEGANTDECEMBER 30, 2020FORTUNE
On Monday, the commission approved a separate proposal aimed at addressing the waitlist problem on Oahu, the state’s most populous island, while DHHL continues to develop subdivisions and other housing.
HAWAII’S BIG FIX TO ITS HOUSING SHORTAGE FOR NATIVE HAWAIIANS? A CASINO.BY ROB PEREZ, HONOLULU STAR-ADVERTISER, AND AGNEL PHILIP, PROPUBLICADECEMBER 24, 2020PROPUBLICA
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WORDS RELATED TO POPULOUS

  • busy
  • congested
  • crammed
  • crowded
  • filled
  • flooded
  • full
  • humming
  • jampacked
  • lively
  • mobbed
  • multitudinous
  • overcrowded
  • overflowing
  • packed
  • populous
  • swarming
  • teeming
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