dreary vs scintillating

dreary

adj
  • Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless. 

scintillating

adj
  • Brilliantly or impressively clever, exciting, amusing or witty. 

  • That scintillates with brief flashes of light; sparkling. 

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