gloomy vs grim

gloomy

adj
  • Suffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected. 

  • Not very illuminated; dim because of darkness, especially when appearing depressing or frightening. 

noun
  • Someone or something that is gloomy or pessimistic. 

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