daunting vs fearful

daunting

adj
  • Discouraging; inspiring fear. 

  • Appearing to be difficult; challenging. 

  • Intimidatingly impressive; awe-inspiring, overwhelming. 

noun
  • The act of defeating, overcoming, or overwhelming. 

  • The act of discouraging or intimidating; discouragement, intimidation. 

fearful

adj
  • Frightening; causing fear. 

  • Tending to fear; timid. 

adv
  • Extremely; fearfully. 

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