dismal vs joyless

dismal

adj
  • Depressing, dreary, cheerless. 

  • Causing despair; gloomy and bleak. 

  • Disastrous, calamitous 

  • Disappointingly inadequate. 

joyless

adj
  • without joy; unhappy, sad 

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