desolate vs subnormal

desolate

adj
  • Dismal or dreary. 

  • Made unfit for habitation or use because of neglect, destruction etc. 

  • Barren and lifeless. 

  • Deserted and devoid of inhabitants. 

  • Sad, forlorn and hopeless. 

verb
  • To devastate or lay waste somewhere. 

  • To abandon or forsake something. 

  • To deprive of inhabitants. 

  • To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless. 

subnormal

adj
  • denormal 

  • Less than normal. 

noun
  • A person whose abilities are less than normal. 

  • That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal. 

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