dead calm vs forlorn

dead calm

adj
  • Completely still with no waves and no wind. 

noun
  • The condition of a perfectly flat sea with no waves and no wind. 

forlorn

adj
  • Abandoned, deserted, left behind. 

  • Unlikely to succeed; hopeless. 

  • Pitifully sad, wretched, miserable; lonely, especially from feeling abandoned, deserted, forsaken. 

noun
  • A forlorn hope. 

  • A member of a forlorn hope. 

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