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| Feb 8, 2018 at 1:01 | answer | added | Lambie | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 8, 2018 at 0:56 | comment | added | Lambie | We often say: a seemingly unimportant [x]; In English, we talk a lot about how things appear or seem. But it would not be one word. Seemingly unimportant or even "seemingly uneventful x" though perhaps not with event. | |
| Feb 8, 2018 at 0:33 | answer | added | Jelila | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Dec 5, 2017 at 2:13 | comment | added | N. Presley | "Ironically" in this context would usually fit best with ramifying, seminal, formative, etc. | |
| Dec 5, 2017 at 2:10 | comment | added | N. Presley | To elaborate: 'deceptively' is flexible enough to refer either to the circumstantial 'ordinariness' or to the extended/underlying significance, but because of that flexibility it requires more careful context to be clear "which way" it is meant. It could be ironic that the superficial aspect of the event is/was dismissed as unimportant, but some surrounding context is necessary for the scope of the irony to be conveyed by #3 of the linked definitions: "Poignantly contrary to what was expected or intended." | |
| Dec 5, 2017 at 1:59 | comment | added | N. Presley | I doubt that English has 'boiled it down' to a single word, though an obscure loan-word would not be surprising. Depending on the type of event or choice of phrasing, "unexpectedly" might fit with the adjectives already suggested by Mv Log, as well as profound, influential, formative). From the other angle (banal, humdrum, pedestrian, mundane, commonplace), be careful to avoid the noted problem of clarity if you consider using deceptively as the adverb. Seemingly is another alternative to Cardinal's suggestions. | |
| Dec 5, 2017 at 1:43 | comment | added | N. Presley | +1 @Cardinal. I was thinking "ostensibly/facially banal". | |
| Nov 29, 2017 at 2:18 | comment | added | Cardinal | Do you have a word for it in your first language? I think in English they use a and adverb to convey your intention. Something like "Apparently trivial" or "Ostensibly trivial". | |
| Nov 28, 2017 at 23:13 | comment | added | Michael Login | Note that an event might be classified as such only a posteriori. A couple of suggestions— potent, ramifying, seminal, though I see that these are not exactly what your question is about. | |
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