manque

English - Turkish

Definition of manque in English Turkish dictionary

beceriksiz

{s} hevesli ama başarısız

gayretli fakat başansız

English - English

Definition of manque in English English dictionary

unable to fully realise one's ambitions; would-be

an artist manque.

{s} unfulfilled, frustrated; unsuccessful

unable to fully realise ones ambitions; would-be -- used postpositively (an artist manqué)

unfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition

Related Terms

manqué

Unfulfilled due to some inherent flaw or an — often uncertain — constitutional lacking of some kind

even with this charitable construal, the logic of consistency specifying what a rational agent ought to fully believe to be ideally consistent remains S5 and, hence, different from the S5-manqué logic of truth.... Weakening the logic of consistency to S5-manqué while keeping the S5-manqué logic of truth intact is not workable.

meningocele manqué

Alternative spelling of meningocele manque

Etymology

[ män-'kA ] (adjective.) 1778. Existing in English from the eighteenth centuryThe Concise Oxford English Dictionary : from French manqué, past participle form of manquer (“to lack, to be lacking in”).