ghastly vs wonderful

ghastly

adj
  • Horrifyingly shocking. 

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

  • Extremely bad. 

adv
  • In a ghastly manner. 

wonderful

adj
  • Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary. 

  • Surprisingly excellent; very good or admirable, extremely impressive. 

adv
  • Exceedingly, to a great extent. 

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