Popular vs. Popularly

Common among the general public; generally accepted.

(legal) Concerning the people; public.

Pertaining to or deriving from the people or general public.

(obsolete) Of low birth, not noble; vulgar, plebian.

Aimed at ordinary people, as opposed to specialists etc.; intended for general consumption.

(obsolete) Cultivating the favour of the common people.

Liked by many people; generally pleasing, widely admired.

Adapted to the means of the common people; cheap.

A person who is popular, especially at a school.

An inexpensive newspaper with wide circulation.

A member of the Populares

Of or pertaining to the common people, or to the whole body of the people, as distinguished from a select portion; as, the popular voice; popular elections.

Example: ‘The men commonly held in popular estimation are greatest at a distance.’;

Suitable to common people; easy to be comprehended; not abstruse; familiar; plain.

Example: ‘Homilies are plain popular instructions.’;

Adapted to the means of the common people; possessed or obtainable by the many; hence, cheap; common; ordinary; inferior; as, popular prices; popular amusements.

Example: ‘The smallest figs, called popular figs, . . . are, of all others, the basest and of least account.’;

Beloved or approved by the people; pleasing to people in general, or to many people; as, a popular preacher; a popular law; a popular administration.

Devoted to the common people; studious of the favor of the populace.

Example: ‘Such popular humanity is treason.’;

Prevailing among the people; epidemic; as, a popular disease.

regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public;

Example: ‘a popular tourist attraction’; ‘a popular girl’; ‘cabbage patch dolls are no longer popular’;

carried on by or for the people (or citizens) at large;

Example: ‘the popular vote’; ‘popular representation’; ‘institutions of popular government’;

representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large;

Example: ‘democratic art forms’; ‘a democratic or popular movement’; ‘popular thought’; ‘popular science’; ‘popular fiction’;

comprehensible to the general public;

Example: ‘written for the popular press in plain nontechnical language’;

(of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people)

In a popular manner.

so as to be generally favored or accepted by the people

commonly

Example: ‘They were popularly known as "the Kings of California"’;

currently

In a popular manner; so as to be generally favored or accepted by the people; commonly; currently; as, the story was popularity reported.

Example: ‘The victor knight,Bareheaded, popularly low had bowed.’;

among the people;

Example: ‘this topic was popularly discussed’;