Popular and Star

Popular

Popular adjective - Enjoying widespread favor or approval.

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

Star

Star adjective - Widely known.
Usage example: looking for star actors to play the leads

Popular and star are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Popular" instead an adjective "Star".

Nearby Words: starred, starry, starlet, starless, stardom

Both words in one sentence

  • Manga / Kase-san Beware the Nice Ones: Kase is friendly, sensitive, and extremely humble despite being popular and a star athlete.
  • Music / Yukiko Okada She was on her way to becoming a star and had she continued, would've been as big a star as Seiko Matsuda; another idol singer who was also very popular in her time.
  • It's Popular, Now It Sucks In "Pewdiecake", a part of The Chronicles Of Steve Stollberg, a fan of the video star Pewdiecake stops liking Pewdiecake due to Pewdiecake becoming extremely popular.
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