grim vs horrible

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. 

horrible

adj
  • Causing horror; terrible; shocking. 

  • Tremendously bad. 

noun
  • A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles. 

  • A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act. 

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