indigestible vs refractory

indigestible

adj
  • Difficult or impossible to digest. 

  • Difficult to accept; unpalatable. 

noun
  • Anything that is difficult to digest. 

refractory

adj
  • Difficult to treat. 

  • Obstinate and unruly; strongly opposed to something. 

  • Not affected by great heat. 

  • Incapable of registering a reaction or stimulus. 

noun
  • A material or piece of material, such as a brick, that has a very high melting point. 

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