populous
adjective
[ ˈpɒpjʊləs ]
• having a large population; densely populated.
• "the populous city of Shanghai"
Similar:
densely populated,
heavily populated,
thickly populated,
heavily settled,
crowded,
congested,
packed,
jammed,
crammed,
teeming,
swarming,
seething,
crawling,
full,
jam-packed,
heaving,
like Piccadilly Circus,
Origin:
late Middle English: from late Latin populosus, from populus ‘people’.
