dreary vs lively

dreary

adj
  • Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless. 

lively

adj
  • Fizzy; foamy; tending to produce a large head in the glass. 

  • Full of life; energetic. 

  • Bright, glowing, vivid; strong, vigorous. 

noun
  • Term of address. 

adv
  • Vigorously. 

  • Vibrantly, vividly. 

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