frightful vs god-awful

frightful

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

  • Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming. 

adv
  • Frightfully; very. 

god-awful

adj
  • Extremely awful, unpleasant or dreadful. 

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