Usually means: Falling short of one's aspirations.
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  1. manque: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. manque: Merriam-Webster
  3. manque: Collins English Dictionary
  4. manque: Vocabulary.com
  5. manque: Wordnik
  6. manque: Wiktionary
  7. manque: Dictionary.com
  8. Manque: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. manque: Rhymezone
  10. manque (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. manque: FreeDictionary.org
  12. manque: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. manque: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. manque: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. manque: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (postpositive) unable to fully realise one's ambitions; would-be

Similar:
would-be, ambitious, manqué, unfulfilled, underambitious, underaccomplished, goalless, lacking, unambitious, unable, more...

Types:
unfulfilled, unaccomplished, undone, incomplete, imperfect, more...

Adjectives:
great, vous, individual, bourgeois, intellectual, revolutionary, male, poete, grand, mystic, novel



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Similar:
would-be, ambitious, manqué, unfulfilled, underambitious, underaccomplished, goalless, lacking, unambitious, unable, more...

Types:
unfulfilled, unaccomplished, undone, incomplete, imperfect, more...

Adjectives:
great, vous, individual, bourgeois, intellectual, revolutionary, male, poete, grand, mystic, novel



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