High-maintenance Definition

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Describes a system which requires a high degree of maintenance to ensure proper functioning and without which it is likely to break down.

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(figuratively, pejorative, of a person) Requiring a lot of attention or reassurance; emotionally needy.

He has this incredibly high-maintenance girlfriend; if he doesn't tell her that he loves her every five minutes, she tends to break down into hysterical depressive weepy fits.
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High-maintenance Sentence Examples

  • Do you think I'm high maintenance?

  • He wondered what poor fool was stuck babysitting the high-maintenance angel as he followed Kris.

  • It's versatility eliminates the need for expensive high maintenance pneumatic or electric machinery.

  • Saltwater fish are beautiful and exotic, but are expensive and high maintenance.

  • Mr. Tim was high maintenance.

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