Crowded vs Populous - What's the difference?
crowded | populous |
Having a large population.
(of a, language) Spoken by a large number of people.
* Victoria Fromkin, ?Robert Rodman, ?Nina M. Hyams, An Introduction to Language (ISBN 1111784094), page 524:
Densely]] [[populate, populated.
Crowded with people.
As adjectives the difference between crowded and populous
is that crowded is containing too many of something; teeming while populous is having a large population.As a verb crowded
is past tense of crowd.populous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- ''China is the most populous country in the world.
- Chinese is the most populous language.
- The Sino-Tibetan family includes Mandarin, the most populous language in the world, spoken by more than one billion Chinese.
- The Nile delta is a populous region.
- Airport departure halls are often populous places during the rush hours.