burnished vs gloomy

burnished

adj
  • Blazing, bright. 

  • Polished, made shiny by rubbing (especially with a burnisher). 

gloomy

adj
  • Suffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected. 

  • Not very illuminated; dim because of darkness, especially when appearing depressing or frightening. 

noun
  • Someone or something that is gloomy or pessimistic. 

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