genial vs grim

genial

adj
  • Pleasantly mild and warm. 

  • Friendly and cheerful. 

  • Marked by genius. 

  • Relating to the chin; genian. 

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