dismal vs drear

dismal

adj
  • Disastrous, calamitous 

  • Causing despair; gloomy and bleak. 

  • Depressing, dreary, cheerless. 

  • Disappointingly inadequate. 

drear

adj
  • Dreary. 

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