gloomy vs uplifting

gloomy

noun
  • Someone or something that is gloomy or pessimistic. 

adj
  • Suffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected. 

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

uplifting

adj
  • Improving the mood; causing cheerfulness. 

noun
  • The act of something being lifted upward. 

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