assured vs hopeless

assured

adj
  • Guaranteed; secure. 

  • Self-confident; self-assured; sure. 

noun
  • An insured person. 

hopeless

adj
  • Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate. 

  • Without talent, not skilled. 

  • Incurable. 

  • Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive. 

How often have the words assured and hopeless occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )