Overall and Popular

Overall

Overall adjective - Held by or applicable to a majority of the people.
Usage example: the overall mind-set among the people in our town seems to be that any increase in taxes is bad

Popular and overall are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Popular" instead an adjective "Overall".

Popular

Popular adjective - Held by or applicable to a majority of the people.
Usage example: popular opinion on that issue has changed dramatically over the years

Overall and popular are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Overall" instead an adjective "Popular".

Both words in one sentence

  • Though Toronto has the most Grey Cup wins of the overall history of the league, Edmonton has the most Grey Cup wins of the league in its current incarnation, and is thus a very popular team.
  • It's one of the most popular Prime roleplay/ask blogs on Tumblr, and possibly one of the most popular for the overall Transformers franchise, likely because of the blogger's extreme dedication - they average over ten posts a day and hardly ever break character.
  • Americans Hate Tingle But the reason the soap was so popular was because it was basically a Roman à Clef of the current state of the country; when broadcast in other countries, they lacked the key, and since the romance plot was very slow and the overall athmosphere so bleak, the spectators did not care.
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