grim vs satisfactory

grim

adj
  • Rigid and unrelenting. 

  • Ghastly or sinister. 

  • Disgusting; gross. 

  • Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding. 

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

satisfactory

adj
  • Causing satisfaction; agreeable or pleasant; satisfying. 

  • Done to satisfaction; adequate or sufficient. 

  • Making atonement for a sin; expiatory. 

noun
  • The rating given to somebody or something that meets requirements without exceeding them. 

  • Somebody or something that meets requirements without exceeding them. 

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