lively vs sad

lively

adj
  • Bright, glowing, vivid; strong, vigorous. 

  • Fizzy; foamy; tending to produce a large head in the glass. 

  • Full of life; energetic. 

adv
  • Vigorously. 

  • Vibrantly, vividly. 

noun
  • Term of address. 

sad

adj
  • Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull. 

  • Soggy (to refer to pastries). 

  • Causing sorrow; lamentable. 

  • Appearing sorrowful. 

  • Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful. 

  • Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor. 

  • Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable. 

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