miserabilist

British  

/ ˈmɪzrə-, ˈmɪzrə-, ˈmɪzərəbɪlɪst, ˈmɪzərəblɪst /

noun

1. a person who appears to enjoy being depressed, esp a performer of or listener to gloomy music

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adjective

1. of, resembling, or likely to be enjoyed by a miserabilist or miserabilists

Example Sentences

Now that “What Was I Made For?” is the miserabilist hit from the year’s biggest movie, girlies of all genders will have plenty to unpack whenever Eilish hits the road again.

From Los Angeles Times

Yet it might help to know that “Hope,” a largely autobiographical drama from the Norwegian writer and director Maria Sodahl, is neither miserabilist nor sappily sentimental.

From New York Times

Check out six new paperbacks, including the return of deliciously funny and unforgettable miserabilist Olive Kitteridge.

From Seattle Times

“Olive Kitteridge, the deliciously funny and unforgettable miserabilist at the heart of Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2008 novel that bore her name, fully deserves the sensitive and satisfying follow-up that Strout has written about her,” wrote a New York Times reviewer about Strout’s 2019 novel, adding that Strout “is exquisitely attuned to the subtleties of her beloved character’s innermost thoughts; she makes us feel for Olive, giving us an intimate, multifaceted and touching portrait of someone suffering alone.”

From Seattle Times

Olive Kitteridge, the deliciously funny and unforgettable miserabilist at the heart of Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2008 novel that bore her name, fully deserves the sensitive and satisfying follow-up that Strout has written about her.

From New York Times