Daily life
high-maintenance
needing a lot of care
Requiring a lot of time, money, attention, or care.
Hear it in real life
Do you want a garden like that?
It looks beautiful, but it must be high-maintenance.
Keeping a white sofa clean is really high-maintenance.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: This garden is highly-maintenance.
Say: This garden is high-maintenance.
The fixed adjective is “high-maintenance,” not “highly-maintenance.”
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
be high-maintenance; a high-maintenance garden or relationship
Your turn: say it out loud
Keeping a white sofa clean is really high-maintenance.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
high-maintenance
needing a lot of care
“Keeping a white sofa clean is really high-maintenance.”
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