cheerful vs cross-grained

cheerful

adj
  • Bright and pleasant. 

  • Noticeably happy and optimistic. 

cross-grained

adj
  • Difficult to deal with; contrary or troublesome. 

  • Having an irregular rather than a parallel grain. 

How often have the words cheerful and cross-grained occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )