distressing vs monstrous

distressing

adj
  • Causing distress; upsetting; distressful. 

monstrous

adj
  • Hideous or frightful. 

  • Enormously large. 

  • Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters. 

  • Freakish or grotesque. 

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