encouraging vs hopeless

encouraging

adj
  • supporting by giving encouragement 

  • giving courage, confidence or hope 

  • auspicious, or bringing good luck 

noun
  • encouragement 

hopeless

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

  • Without talent, not skilled. 

  • Incurable. 

  • Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive. 

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