miserable vs past tense

miserable

noun
  • A state of misery or melancholy. 

  • A miserable person; a wretch. 

adj
  • In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor. 

  • Wretched; worthless; mean; contemptible. 

  • Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent; hopeless. 

  • Of the weather, extremely unpleasant due to being cold, wet, overcast, etc. 

past tense

noun
  • A grammatical form (often a verb form) that is used in a conditional expression to refer to an event, transaction, occurrence, or object that is hypothetical and often counterfactual. 

  • A grammatical form (often a verb form) that refers to an event, transaction, occurrence, or object that happened (or had happened), or existed, at some time before now (the applicable reference time). 

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