popular

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

• “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

• “the popular vote”
• “popular representation”
• “institutions of popular government”

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

• “democratic art forms”
• “a democratic or popular movement”
• “popular thought”
• “popular science”
• “popular fiction”

comprehensible to the general public

• “written for the popular press in plain nontechnical language”

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