drear vs woeful

drear

adj
  • Dreary. 

woeful

adj
  • Lamentable, deplorable. 

  • Wretched; paltry; poor. 

  • Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction. 

  • Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity. 

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