smooth as butter
Glides without resistance
Smooth as butter describes something that moves, flows, or operates with perfect ease and no friction.
The comparison captures butter's soft, spreadable quality: The car's transmission shifted smooth as butter.
Often describes performances, movements, or processes that appear effortless: His jump shot is smooth as butter.
- supersmoothExtremely frictionless surface quality
- silkySmooth and lustrous
- slickSmooth or craftily adept
- creamySmooth and rich
- spreadableAble to be spread
velvety · baby soft · seamless · flawless · gliding · effortless · easy as pie · indulgent · unctuous · like clockwork · frictionless · fluid · melted · liquid gold · urbane · glossy · supple · mellow
ease of process/execution
smooth as butterjarring
Disturbingly incongruous
rough going · bumpy ride · rocky · halting · herky-jerky
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