learned vs vital

learned

adj
  • Derived from experience; acquired by learning. 

  • Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated. 

  • Scholarly, exhibiting scholarship. 

  • A courteous description used in various ways to refer to lawyers or judges. 

vital

adj
  • Invigorating or life-giving. 

  • Very important. 

  • Containing life; living. 

  • Necessary to continued existence. 

  • Necessary to the continuation of life; being the seat of life; being that on which life depends. 

  • Capable of living; in a state to live; viable. 

  • Relating to the recording of life events. 

  • Relating to, or characteristic of life. 

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