merry vs terrible

merry

adj
  • Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight. 

  • Festive and full of fun and laughter. 

  • Brisk 

  • drunk; tipsy 

  • Jolly and full of high spirits; happy. 

noun
  • An English wild cherry. 

terrible

adj
  • Dreadful; causing terror, alarm and fear; awesome 

  • Intense; extreme in degree or extent. 

  • Formidable, powerful. 

  • Unpleasant; disagreeable. 

  • Very bad; lousy. 

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

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