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misery lit

misery lit noun: a genre of supposedly biographical literature mostly concerned with the protagonist's triumph over personal trauma or abuse.

Noun

misery lit (uncountable)

  1. (informal) A genre of supposedly biographical literature mostly concerned with the protagonist's triumph over personal trauma or abuse.

Synonyms of misery lit

Questions about misery lit

What does misery lit mean?
Misery lit means a genre of supposedly biographical literature mostly concerned with the protagonist's triumph over personal trauma or abuse.
What part of speech is misery lit?
Misery lit is a noun.

Words near misery lit in the dictionary

  1. misery enjoys company
  2. misery guts
  3. misery index
  4. misery indexes
  5. misery indices
  6. misery lit
  7. misery loves company
  8. misery porn
  9. misery whip
  10. misery whips
  11. miseryguts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misery lit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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