Cinderellaesque

English

Etymology

Cinderella + -esque

Adjective

Cinderellaesque (comparative more Cinderellaesque, superlative most Cinderellaesque)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of Cinderella from the fairy tale.
    • 2003, Kim Moritsugu, The Glenwood Treasure
      [] I'd come home from my first day at Brookbank Hall, a private girls' school, sobbed for hours, and offered to perform Cinderellaesque chores for the rest of my childhood if my parents would transfer me back to Rose Park Elementary.
    • 2013, Fred Meadows, Reforming the Broken Heart of Leadership
      Creating the perfect mixture of sand and water for our man-made Cinderellaesque castle, I looked up at the expanse of water before me and had one of those epiphany moments.
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