hebetate vs saturnine

hebetate

adj
  • obtuse; dull 

  • Having a dull or blunt and soft point 

verb
  • To render obtuse; to dull; to blunt. 

saturnine

adj
  • Of a setting: depressing, dull, gloomy. 

  • Caused or affected by lead poisoning (saturnism). 

  • Of a person: having a tendency to be cold, bitter, gloomy, sarcastic, and slow to change and react. 

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