elegiac vs miserable

elegiac

adj
  • Expressing sorrow or mourning. 

  • Of or relating to an elegy. 

noun
  • A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter. 

miserable

adj
  • In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor. 

  • Wretched; worthless; mean; contemptible. 

  • Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent; hopeless. 

  • Of the weather, extremely unpleasant due to being cold, wet, overcast, etc. 

noun
  • A miserable person; a wretch. 

  • A state of misery or melancholy. 

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