grim vs morbid

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. 

morbid

adj
  • Grisly or gruesome. 

  • Of, or relating to disease. 

  • Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish. 

  • Taking an interest in, or fixating on, unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease. 

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