clean slate

1. 1.

   an opportunity to start over without prejudice

   Synonymsfresh starttabula rasa

   Broaderopportunity

Questions about clean slate

What does clean slate mean?

clean slate means "an opportunity to start over without prejudice".

What is another word for clean slate?

Close synonyms include fresh start, tabula rasa. 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 clean slate a common word?

clean slate 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.