privative vs useless

privative

adj
  • consisting in the absence of something; negative 

  • causing privation; depriving 

  • indicating the absence of something 

noun
  • something that causes privation or indicates an absence 

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 privative and useless occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )