awful vs grim

awful

adj
  • Very bad. 

  • Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively. 

adv
  • Very, extremely. 

  • Awfully; dreadfully; terribly. 

grim

adj
  • Disgusting; gross. 

  • Rigid and unrelenting. 

  • Ghastly or sinister. 

  • Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding. 

verb
  • To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to. 

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