adj. 25B6; adjective
the restaurant is very popular : WELL LIKED, favoured, sought-after, in demand, desired, wanted; commercial, marketable, fashionable, in vogue, all the rage, hot; informal in, cool, big; Brit. informal, dated all the go.
popular science : NON-SPECIALIST, non-technical, amateur, lay person's, general, middle-of-the-road; accessible, simplified, plain, simple, easy, straightforward, understandable; mass-market, middlebrow, lowbrow, pop.
popular opinion : WIDESPREAD, general, common, current, prevalent, prevailing, standard, stock; ordinary, usual, accepted, established, acknowledged, conventional, orthodox.
a popular movement for independence : MASS, general, communal, collective, social, collaborative, group, civil, public.
highbrow.