dreich vs lifeless

dreich

adj
  • Bleak, miserable, dismal, cheerless, dreary. 

lifeless

adj
  • dull or lacking vitality 

  • inanimate; having no life 

  • dead; having lost life 

  • uninhabited, or incapable of supporting life 

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