A fork of Rural Dictionary
1. Require (ing) a lot of work/attention to maintain. 2. Require (ing) a lot of money or attention to appearance. 3. Require (ing) a high emotional investment or en excessive amount of money. EXAMPLES OF HIGH-MAINTENANCE BEHAVIOR: -Having frequent professional cosmetic consultations, such as hair-dressing, manicures and pedicures -Excessive worthless spending (tricking) -Attention craving -Being too delicate or suavé
NOTE: high-maintenance is primarily used to refer to attractive straight women or a person/people that's stuck on self.
Requiring a lot of attention. When describing a person, high-maintenance usually means that the individual is emotionally needy or prone to over-dramatizing a situation to gain attention
Although he was a nice boy, his low self-esteem made him high-maintenance.
1.A female that requires more than average hair/nail/pedicuire/skin care services, the latest trends, name brand clothes/shoes and handbags, and lots of attention. 2.A female who requires her man to have an expensive car, expensive house, a good paying job, and lots of money.
1.She go to the hair salon 4 times a week.She is a high maintenence person. 2.Jasmine put James in the poor house. She is a high maintenence broad.
A person who has expensive taste (re. clothing, restaurants, etc.). This person is never comfortable because he/she is constantly concerned about his/her appearance. This person feels they are better than most people and usually judge others based on outward appearances.
I am not high maintenance
1. Requiring much time and many products to keep their appearance at the current level. 2. And/or requiring much attention from others in relationships, romantic or otherwise.
1. I know I'm high maintenance, said the beauty queen. 2. Anne was a high maintenance employee, with her nearly daily requests for time-off or time-shifting.
having expensive taste and multiple costly needs frequently.
The teenage girl had to have the expensive, name-brand shoes instead of the cheaper ones that were just as good.
A gluttonous queen, narcissistic and mean.
She's so high maintenance, I can't stand being around her anymore.