grim vs miserable

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. 

miserable

adj
  • Wretched; worthless; mean; contemptible. 

  • In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor. 

  • Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent; hopeless. 

  • Of the weather, extremely unpleasant due to being cold, wet, overcast, etc. 

noun
  • A miserable person; a wretch. 

  • A state of misery or melancholy. 

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