manque

A French loanword used to describe someone who has failed to achieve a particular status or ambition, often placed after the noun (e.g., 'an artist manqué').

• 🇫🇷Anglicisme utilisé pour décrire une personne qui n'a pas atteint un certain statut ou des ambitions, souvent placé après le nom (par exemple, « artiste manqué »).

1. Unfulfilled or frustrated C2 formal british

   Describes a person who has not achieved a particular ambition or role, often used after a noun.

   • He was an artist manqué, always dreaming of painting but never picking up a brush.
   • She felt like a writer manqué, with many ideas but no published works.
   • The actor manqué spent his days working in a theater box office.

   🇫🇷manqué

   Synonymes: frustratedunfulfilledwould-be

   Antonymes: fulfilledsatisfiedsuccessful