Hard
Practical
Practical adjective - Willing to see things as they really are and deal with them sensibly.
Usage example: a practical caseworker who doesn't spend a lot of time philosophizing while doing social work in the inner city
Hard and practical are semantically related in excite topic. Sometimes you can use "Hard" instead an adjective "Practical".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Inverted in Dragon Age II, Meredith is a lot more hard-line and brutal than her more diplomatic and practical second-in-command Cullen.
- How would you feel if your relatively hard sci-fi universe got overturned by people with psychic powers, time travel, practical invincibility and space-time bending?
Source: Fan Fic / A Red Letter Day - While the Yakuza do use them, they are hard to hide, making knives more practical, and guns just work so much better.
Cite this Source
Practical and Hard. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hard/practical
Hard & Practical. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/hard/practical>.
Practical or Hard. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/hard/practical.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "hard" and "practical" have occurred on timeline