hopeless vs rotten

hopeless

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

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

  • Without talent, not skilled. 

  • Incurable. 

rotten

adj
  • Bad or terrible. 

  • Of stone or rock, crumbling or friable; in a loose or disintegrated state. 

  • very drunk, intoxicated 

  • Of perishable items, overridden with bacteria and other infectious agents. 

  • In a state of decay. 

  • Cruel, mean or immoral. 

adv
  • To an extreme degree. 

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