depressed vs grim

depressed

adj
  • Unhappy; despondent. 

  • Reduced to a lower degree or form. 

  • Suffering damaging effects of economic recession. 

  • Suffering from clinical depression. 

grim

adj
  • Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding. 

  • Rigid and unrelenting. 

  • Ghastly or sinister. 

  • Disgusting; gross. 

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

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