drear vs hopeless

drear

adj
  • Dreary. 

hopeless

adj
  • Incurable. 

  • Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate. 

  • Without talent, not skilled. 

  • Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive. 

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