Go to MSN Homeencarta®
Dictionary
Find
in
Dictionary
Thesaurus
Translations
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Click to move up the list of words
fault tolerance
fault tree analysis
faultfinding
faultless
faulty
faun
fauna
Faunus
faute de mieux
fauteuil
fauve
fauvism
fauvist
faux
faux ami
faux-naïf
faux pas
Click to move down the list of words
Also available:

World English Dictionary
Dictionnaire Français

faute de mieux
faute de mieux [ ft də my ]


adverb 
Definition:
 
for want of better: in the absence of something better
the feeling that she had married him faute de mieux
[< French, "lack of better"]
Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Edition] © & (P)2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Advertisement
© 2009 Microsoft