ghastly vs grim

ghastly

adj
  • Horrifyingly shocking. 

  • Like a ghost in appearance; death-like; pale; pallid; dismal. 

  • Extremely bad. 

adv
  • In a ghastly manner. 

grim

adj
  • Disgusting; gross. 

  • Rigid and unrelenting. 

  • Ghastly or sinister. 

  • Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding. 

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

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