frightful vs horrific

frightful

adj
  • Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming. 

  • Unpleasant, dreadful, awful (also used as an intensifier). 

adv
  • Frightfully; very. 

horrific

adj
  • Horrifying, causing horror; horrible. 

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