sad vs woeful

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. 

woeful

adj
  • Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity. 

  • Wretched; paltry; poor. 

  • Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction. 

  • Lamentable, deplorable. 

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