least effort

1. 1.

   the least effortful way to do something

   Synonymsleast resistance

   Broadereffort

Questions about least effort

What does least effort mean?

least effort means "the least effortful way to do something".

What is another word for least effort?

Close synonyms include least resistance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is least effort a common word?

least effort is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.