dejected vs hopeless

dejected

adj
  • Sad and dispirited. 

hopeless

adj
  • Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive. 

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

  • Without talent, not skilled. 

  • Incurable. 

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