awful vs repulsive

awful

adj
  • Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively. 

  • Very bad. 

adv
  • Very, extremely. 

  • Awfully; dreadfully; terribly. 

repulsive

adj
  • Having the capacity to repel. 

  • Tending to rouse aversion or to repulse; disgusting. 

  • Cold; reserved; forbidding. 

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