discouraged vs gloomy

discouraged

adj
  • Having lost confidence or hope; dejected; disheartened. 

  • unrecommended; unprescribed. 

gloomy

adj
  • Suffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected. 

  • Not very illuminated; dim because of darkness, especially when appearing depressing or frightening. 

noun
  • Someone or something that is gloomy or pessimistic. 

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