hopeless vs pathological

hopeless

adj
  • Without talent, not skilled. 

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

  • Incurable. 

  • Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive. 

pathological

adj
  • Having properties which are counterintuitive or difficult to handle. 

  • Relating to, amounting to, causing, or caused by a physical or mental disorder. 

  • Pertaining to pathology. 

  • Having properties that cause unusually bad behaviour, especially regarding correctness or performance. 

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