congenial vs grim

congenial

adj
  • Friendly or sociable. 

  • Suitable to one’s needs. 

  • Having the same or very similar nature, personality, tastes, habits or interests. 

grim

adj
  • Ghastly or sinister. 

  • Rigid and unrelenting. 

  • Disgusting; gross. 

  • Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding. 

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

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