forlorn vs suicidal

forlorn

adj
  • Pitifully sad, wretched, miserable; lonely, especially from feeling abandoned, deserted, forsaken. 

  • Abandoned, deserted, left behind. 

  • Unlikely to succeed; hopeless. 

noun
  • A forlorn hope. 

  • A member of a forlorn hope. 

suicidal

adj
  • Pertaining to suicide. 

  • Likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide. 

  • Extremely reckless. 

  • Highly likely to certain to result in the deaths of the participants; dangerous or reckless to such a degree as to be tantamount to suicide for those taking part. 

noun
  • Someone suicidal; someone likely to kill themselves. 

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