groaning vs miserable

groaning

noun
  • A low sound associated with extended suffering, sorrow, and toil. 

adj
  • Heavily laden, as if to creak under the strain. 

  • That groans. 

miserable

noun
  • A state of misery or melancholy. 

  • A miserable person; a wretch. 

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. 

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