useless vs working

useless

adj
  • Without use or possibility to be used. 

  • Unable to do well at a particular task or thing. Useless is mildly insulting. 

  • Good-for-nothing; not dependable. 

  • Unhelpful, not useful; pointless (of an action). 

working

adj
  • Enough to allow one to use something. 

  • In paid employment. 

  • Used in real life; practical. 

  • Of or relating to employment. 

  • That suffices but requires additional work. 

  • That is or are functioning. 

noun
  • Method of operation. 

  • Becoming full of a vegetable substance. 

  • Operation; action. 

  • The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem. 

  • A train movement. 

  • Fermentation. 

  • A place where work is carried on. 

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