encouraging vs grim

encouraging

adj
  • auspicious, or bringing good luck 

  • supporting by giving encouragement 

  • giving courage, confidence or hope 

noun
  • encouragement 

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 encouraging and grim occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )