grim vs terrible

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. 

terrible

adj
  • Dreadful; causing terror, alarm and fear; awesome 

  • Intense; extreme in degree or extent. 

  • Formidable, powerful. 

  • Unpleasant; disagreeable. 

  • Very bad; lousy. 

adv
  • In a terrible way; to a terrible extent; terribly; awfully. 

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