daunting vs horrible

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. 

horrible

adj
  • Causing horror; terrible; shocking. 

  • Tremendously bad. 

noun
  • A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles. 

  • A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act. 

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