Synonyms of carte blanche

carte blanche

noun

as in free hand

permission to do something in any way you choose to do it

We gave the decorator carte blanche to furnish the house.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• free hand
• blank check
• uninhibitedness
• abandon
• spontaneity
• unrestraint
• permissiveness
• ease
• zeal
• lightheartedness
• exuberance
• fervor
• warmth
• unconstraint
• naturalness
• abandonment
• zealotry
• carelessness
• zealousness
• recklessness
• spontaneousness
• enthusiasm
• indiscretion
• insouciance
• spirit
• impulsivity
• unself-consciousness
• heedlessness
• impulsiveness
• ardor
• thoughtlessness
• excess
• casualness
• immoderacy
• incontinence
• wildness
• indulgence
• excessiveness
• offhandedness
• licentiousness
• intemperance
• wantonness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reserve
• embarrassment
• suppression
• reticence
• inhibition
• uneasiness
• repression
• discretion
• discipline
• self-consciousness
• restraint
• constraint
• carefulness
• willpower
• self-restraint
• self-control
• self-discipline
• discreetness
• heedfulness
• self-denial
• self-mastery
• self-command

Examples of carte blanche in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Were you given carte blanche and just told to find the best person? —Jenelle Riley, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024

That provision, critics assert, handed thieves a de facto carte blanche to plunder beleaguered retail outlets with near impunity. —Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 23 July 2024

But a Donald Trump who takes office on Jan. 20, 2025, will read it as carte blanche. —Philip Bump, Washington Post, 1 July 2024

Wrangel Island had no predators—including humans—and no other grazing animals, which gave the woolly mammoths carte blanche to munch and reproduce freely. —Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 June 2024

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