hopeless vs satisfactory

hopeless

adj
  • Incurable. 

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

  • Without talent, not skilled. 

  • Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive. 

satisfactory

adj
  • Causing satisfaction; agreeable or pleasant; satisfying. 

  • Done to satisfaction; adequate or sufficient. 

  • Making atonement for a sin; expiatory. 

noun
  • The rating given to somebody or something that meets requirements without exceeding them. 

  • Somebody or something that meets requirements without exceeding them. 

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