frightful vs horrid

frightful

adj
  • Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming. 

  • Unpleasant, dreadful, awful (also used as an intensifier). 

adv
  • Frightfully; very. 

horrid

adj
  • Causing horror or dread. 

  • Offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable. 

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