• IPA: /ˈiːtɪəˌleɪtɪd/

1. Simple past tense and past participle of etiolate

etiolated

1. blanched#Adjective|Blanched because of sunlight deprivation or excessive exposure to sunlight.

   Birds inhabiting desert regions have an etiolated appearance.

   • 1791, [Erasmus Darwin], “Additional Notes. Note XXXIV.—Vegetable Perspiration.”, in The Botanic Garden; a Poem, in Two Parts. […], London: J[oseph] Johnson, […], OCLC 270934416 ↗, part I (The Economy of Vegetation), page 94 ↗:

     [I]t muſt be obſerved that both vegetable and animal ſubſtances become bleached white by the ſun-beams when they are dead, as cabbage-ſtalks, bones, ivory, tallow, bees-wax, linen and cotton cloth; and hence I ſuppoſe the copper-coloured natives of ſunny countries might become etiolated or blanched by being kept from their infancy in the dark, or removed for a few generations to more northerly climates.

   • 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 2, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 690663892 ↗; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 2, page 130 ↗:

     Already on the walk from the station the May sunshine had made him feel dirty and etiolated, a creature of indoors, with the sooty dust of London in the pores of his skin.

2. (figuratively) lack#Verb|Lacking in vigour; anemic, feeble.
   • 1975, Hansard, "Attack on Inflation," 22 July, 1975,^{[https://web.archive.org/web/20190212095659/https://www.hansard-corpus.org/]}

     I am concerned about Joe Bloggs, the ordinary bloke on the shop floor. Whatever esoteric phraseology the Government use and whatever etiolated formulae the Government give birth to, they will not persuade me that if Joe Bloggs can not get an increase which he is claiming because he is prevented from claiming it, that is a statutory policy, whereas if Joe Bloggs can not get the increase he is claiming because his employer is statutorily forbidden to give it to him, that is not a statutory policy. That is nonsense.

   • 2011, Christopher Hitchens, "Middleton would do well to escape the Royal Family sideshow," The National Post, 21 April, 2011,

     Convinced republican that I am, and foe of the Prince who talks to plants and wants to be crowned “head of all faiths” as well as the etiolated Church of England, I find myself pierced by a pang of sympathy.

3. (botany) Grown in the dark#Noun|dark.