terrible vs tormenting

terrible

adj
  • Unpleasant; disagreeable. 

  • Intense; extreme in degree or extent. 

  • Dreadful; causing terror, alarm and fear; awesome 

  • Formidable, powerful. 

  • Very bad; lousy. 

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

tormenting

adj
  • Involving or causing torment. 

noun
  • The act by which somebody is tormented. 

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