suicidal vs woeful

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. 

woeful

adj
  • Lamentable, deplorable. 

  • Wretched; paltry; poor. 

  • Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction. 

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

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