competent vs hopeless

competent

adj
  • Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications. 

  • Resistant to deformation or flow. 

  • Having jurisdiction or authority over a particular issue or question. 

  • Adequate for the purpose. 

  • Permeable to foreign DNA. 

hopeless

adj
  • Without talent, not skilled. 

  • Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate. 

  • Incurable. 

  • Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive. 

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