fearful vs frightening

fearful

adj
  • Frightening; causing fear. 

  • Tending to fear; timid. 

adv
  • Extremely; fearfully. 

frightening

adj
  • Causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary. 

  • Awful, terrible, very bad. 

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