guarded vs terrible

guarded

adj
  • Cautious; restrained. 

  • Watched over; supervised. 

  • When the practitioner formulating the opinion does not have enough information to know, or to foretell, what the outcome may be. 

terrible

adj
  • Unpleasant; disagreeable. 

  • Intense; extreme in degree or extent. 

  • Dreadful; causing terror, alarm and fear; awesome 

  • Formidable, powerful. 

  • Very bad; lousy. 

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

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