forbidding vs grim

forbidding

adj
  • Appearing to be threatening, unfriendly or potentially unpleasant. 

noun
  • The act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition. 

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