hopeless vs irrecoverable

hopeless

adj
  • Without talent, not skilled. 

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

  • Incurable. 

  • Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive. 

irrecoverable

adj
  • Not recoverable; incapable of being recovered. 

  • That cannot be recovered from or made good; irremediable. 

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