might-have-been

noun

Definitions

  1. Someone or something whose potential greatness was not achieved.

    • But no more imposing might-have-been was there in Great Britain than the Glasgow & North Western Railway, which was intended to run from Glasgow to Inverness via Glencoe and the Great Glen.

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