fearsome vs ghastly

fearsome

adj
  • frightening, especially in appearance. 

ghastly

adj
  • Horrifyingly shocking. 

  • Like a ghost in appearance; death-like; pale; pallid; dismal. 

  • Extremely bad. 

adv
  • In a ghastly manner. 

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