hopeless vs nonpositive

hopeless

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

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

  • Without talent, not skilled. 

  • Incurable. 

nonpositive

adj
  • Not positive. 

  • Not positive; either zero or negative. 

noun
  • Any value that is not positive. 

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