hopeless vs woeful

hopeless

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

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

  • Without talent, not skilled. 

  • Incurable. 

woeful

adj
  • Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity. 

  • Wretched; paltry; poor. 

  • Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction. 

  • Lamentable, deplorable. 

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