dead calm vs tepid

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. 

tepid

adj
  • Lukewarm; neither warm nor cool. 

  • Uninterested; exhibiting little passion or eagerness; lukewarm. 

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