least resistance

1. 1.

   the least effortful way to do something

   Synonymsleast effort

   Broadereffort

Questions about least resistance

What does least resistance mean?

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

What is another word for least resistance?

Close synonyms include least effort. 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 resistance a common word?

least resistance 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.