sad vs sprightly

sad

adj
  • Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful. 

  • Soggy (to refer to pastries). 

  • Causing sorrow; lamentable. 

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

  • Appearing sorrowful. 

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

  • Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable. 

sprightly

adj
  • Of a person: full of life and vigour, especially with a light and springy step. 

  • Animated, gay, or vivacious; lively, spirited. 

  • Especially of an older person: energetic and in good health; spry. 

adv
  • In a lively and vigorous way; sprightlily. 

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