Popular
Popular adjective - Enjoying widespread favor or approval.
Widely held and popular are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Widely held" instead an adjective "Popular".
Widely held
Popular and widely held are semantically related. You can use "Popular" instead an adjective phrase "Widely held".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- familiar and popular
- familiar and widely held
- common and popular
- common and widely held
- ordinary and popular
- ordinary and widely held
- stock and popular
- stock and widely held
- public and popular
- public and widely held
- current and popular
- current and widely held
- standard and popular
- standard and widely held
Both terms in one sentence
- For example, the first film to lose over a million dollars, Intolerance, came out at a time when its antiwar sentiments (which were widely held just months earlier) were going against the popular pro-war wave of late 1916.
Source: Box Office Bomb
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