miserable vs sparse

miserable

adj
  • Wretched; worthless; mean; contemptible. 

  • In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor. 

  • Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent; hopeless. 

  • Of the weather, extremely unpleasant due to being cold, wet, overcast, etc. 

noun
  • A miserable person; a wretch. 

  • A state of misery or melancholy. 

sparse

adj
  • Not dense; meager; scanty 

  • Having few nonzero elements 

  • Having widely spaced intervals. 

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