# enfant terrible

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. An unconventional badly-behaved person who causes embarrassment or shock to others.
2. An unusually successful person who is strikingly unorthodox, innovative, or avant-garde.
3. A wild child.

## Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French enfant terrible (literally “terrible child”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/enfant-terrible