"high-maintenance" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "According to the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, the figurative sense was popularized by the 1989 romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally....",
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      "form": "more high-maintenance",
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      "form": "most high-maintenance",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "word": "brittle"
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      "word": "finicky"
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      "word": "temperamental"
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          "_dis": "84 16",
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          "parents": [
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          "_dis": "85 15",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
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          "orig": "en:Systems theory",
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      "glosses": [
        "Requiring a high degree of maintenance to ensure proper functioning, and without which it is likely to break down."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "maintenance",
          "maintenance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a system) Requiring a high degree of maintenance to ensure proper functioning, and without which it is likely to break down."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a system"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "requiring a high degree of maintenance to ensure proper functioning, and without which it is likely to break down",
          "word": "sok törődést igénylő"
        }
      ]
    },
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          "name": "Personality",
          "orig": "en:Personality",
          "parents": [
            "Mind",
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            "Fundamental"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally... (motion picture), spoken by Harry Burns (Billy Crystal)",
          "text": "There are two kinds of women: high maintenance and low maintenance.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Requiring a lot of attention or reassurance; emotionally needy"
      ],
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          "attention",
          "attention"
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        [
          "reassurance",
          "reassurance"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively, derogatory, of a person) Requiring a lot of attention or reassurance; emotionally needy"
      ],
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        "of a person"
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        "derogatory",
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          "sense": "(of a person) requiring a lot of attention or reassurance; emotionally needy",
          "word": "sok odafigyelést/törődést igénylő"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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    "When Harry Met Sally..."
  ],
  "word": "high-maintenance"
}

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    {
      "word": "low-maintenance"
    }
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    "English parasynthetic adjectives",
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    "en:Personality",
    "en:Systems theory"
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  "etymology_text": "According to the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, the figurative sense was popularized by the 1989 romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally....",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more high-maintenance",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most high-maintenance",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "brittle"
    },
    {
      "word": "finicky"
    },
    {
      "word": "temperamental"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Requiring a high degree of maintenance to ensure proper functioning, and without which it is likely to break down."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "maintenance",
          "maintenance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a system) Requiring a high degree of maintenance to ensure proper functioning, and without which it is likely to break down."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a system"
      ]
    },
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        "English terms with usage examples"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally... (motion picture), spoken by Harry Burns (Billy Crystal)",
          "text": "There are two kinds of women: high maintenance and low maintenance.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Requiring a lot of attention or reassurance; emotionally needy"
      ],
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          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "attention",
          "attention"
        ],
        [
          "reassurance",
          "reassurance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively, derogatory, of a person) Requiring a lot of attention or reassurance; emotionally needy"
      ],
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        "of a person"
      ],
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        "derogatory",
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      ]
    }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "requiring a high degree of maintenance to ensure proper functioning, and without which it is likely to break down",
      "word": "sok törődést igénylő"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "(of a person) requiring a lot of attention or reassurance; emotionally needy",
      "word": "sok odafigyelést/törődést igénylő"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "When Harry Met Sally..."
  ],
  "word": "high-maintenance"
}