Hard
Hard adjective - Having a consistency that does not easily yield to pressure.
Usage example: fell on the hard floor and bruised her arm
Substantial and hard are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Substantial" instead an adjective "Hard".
Substantial
Substantial adjective - Having great meaning or lasting effect.
Hard and substantial are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hard" instead an adjective "Substantial".
Both words in one sentence
- Their powers can debuff you heavily and do substantial damage, and because they have light sabers they also hit hard in melee.
- Of course, an exception to this rule would be if their gimmick/ability were hard to use and/or apparently useless, but gave a substantial advantage if mastered properly, in which case they would be a Lethal Joke Faction.
Source: A Commander Is You -
Level 4 Meat Boy/Bandage Girl is especially powerful; the hard part is somehow assembling one and getting substantial use out of them, since finding 4 Harbingers that drop the same pickup isn't that likely to happen without holding onto the Book of Revelation for several levels.
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