path of least resistance

Noun

Meaning

the easiest way

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

line of least resistance primrose path easy way life of ease easiest way garden path easy option road of least resistance easiest method easy road path of least effort easiest path primrose way easy alternative quick alternative

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Antonyms

hardest way most difficult approach most difficult method most difficult way hardest approach hardest method

Hypernyms

fashion

Examples

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. John Dewey

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser. H. G. Wells

The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men. Henry David Thoreau

Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings. Steven Seagal

There's an obvious attraction To the path of least resistance in your life Well there's an obvious aversion no amount of my insistence Could make you try tonight 'Cause it's easy not to So much easier not to And what goes around never comes around to you To you, to you, to you, to you, to you. Alanis Morissette

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance. Samuel Butler (novelist)

Close letter words and terms

path of honesty path of immorality path of least effort path of morality path of pleasure path of righteousness