frightful vs repellent

frightful

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

  • Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming. 

adv
  • Frightfully; very. 

repellent

adj
  • Repulsive, inspiring aversion. 

  • Resistant or impervious to something. 

  • Tending or able to repel; driving back. 

noun
  • Someone who repels. 

  • A substance used to repel insects, other pests, or dangerous animals. 

  • A substance or treatment for a fabric etc to make it impervious to something. 

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