dismal vs morbid

dismal

adj
  • Disastrous, calamitous 

  • Causing despair; gloomy and bleak. 

  • Depressing, dreary, cheerless. 

  • Disappointingly inadequate. 

morbid

adj
  • Grisly or gruesome. 

  • Of, or relating to disease. 

  • Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish. 

  • Taking an interest in, or fixating on, unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease. 

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