also-ran vs unoriginal

also-ran

noun
  • A loser; a person or thing soon to be forgotten. 

  • A person or animal who competed in a race but did not win. 

unoriginal

noun
  • A person or work that does not exhibit originality. 

adj
  • Not being the first or earliest version of something, not original. 

  • Lacking originality. 

How often have the words also-ran and unoriginal occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )