hopeful vs suicidal

hopeful

adj
  • inspiring hope 

  • feeling hope 

noun
  • Someone who is hoping for success or victory, especially as a candidate in a political election. 

suicidal

adj
  • Likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide. 

  • Extremely reckless. 

  • Highly likely to certain to result in the deaths of the participants; dangerous or reckless to such a degree as to be tantamount to suicide for those taking part. 

  • Pertaining to suicide. 

noun
  • Someone suicidal; someone likely to kill themselves. 

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