fearful vs gritty

fearful

adj
  • Frightening; causing fear. 

  • Tending to fear; timid. 

adv
  • Extremely; fearfully. 

gritty

adj
  • Intense and starkly realistic; depicting harsh reality, especially violence. 

  • Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles. 

  • Spirited; resolute; unyielding. 

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