nonessential vs useless

nonessential

adj
  • Not required; not essential. 

noun
  • Something that is not essential. 

useless

adj
  • Good-for-nothing; not dependable. 

  • Unable to do well at a particular task or thing. Useless is mildly insulting. 

  • Without use or possibility to be used. 

  • Unhelpful, not useful; pointless (of an action). 

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