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Desiring or professing to be; vainly pretending to be; as, a would-be poet.

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  1. a. Desiring or professing to be; vainly pretending to be; as, a would-be poet.
  2. adj. unfulfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition
  3. ' (as, a would-be poet.
  4. j:100 s unfulfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition