1. manque - Adjective
2. manque - Adjective Satellite
unfulfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition
Source: WordNetYou've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors! Terry Eagleton
Berlioz, p. 430 According to the musical scholar Jean Gallois, it was apropos of this episode that Berlioz made his well-known bon mot about Saint-Saëns, "He knows everything, but lacks inexperience" ("Il sait tout, mais il manque d'inexpérience"). Source: Internet
The castration complex is formed when the child discovers that this Other is not complete because there is a " Lack (manque) " in the Other. Source: Internet