awful vs lovesome

awful

adj
  • Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively. 

  • Very bad. 

adv
  • Very, extremely. 

  • Awfully; dreadfully; terribly. 

lovesome

adj
  • Worthy of love; having qualities that inspire love; lovable. 

  • A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! 

  • Lovable on account of beauty; lovely, beautiful. 

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