Gloomy

Definition: Gloomy

Gloomy

Adjective

1. Characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy".

2. Depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams.

3. Depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic".

4. Causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news".

5. Reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces".

6. Causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "gloomy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Gloomy \Gloom"y\, adjective. [Comparative Gloomier; superlative Gloomiest.]. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Gloomy

Dejection

Adjective: cheerless, joyless, spiritless; uncheerful, uncheery; unlively; unhappy; melancholy, dismal, somber, dark, gloomy, triste, clouded, murky, lowering, frowning, lugubrious, funereal, mournful, lamentable, dreadful.

Hopelessness

Airy hopes forlorn hope; gone case, dead duck, gone coon; goner; bad job, bad business; enfant perdu; gloomy horizon, black spots in the horizon; slough of Despond, cave of Despair; immedicabile vulnus.

Crosswords: Gloomy

Well, you know, its a little dark, a little gloomy, and as always, hey, full of dead people, what are you gonna do (Hercules; writing credit: Ron Clements; Barry Johnson)

Well, uh, it's a little gloomy, but we could probably work wonders with just a few geraniums (The Monkees; writing credit: Dee Caruso; Gerald Gardner)

There we were, gathered together, gloomy and despondent, around a single meager woodcutter (The Fearless Vampire Killers; writing credit: Gérard Brach ; Roman Polanski)

Pretty gloomy setting (Diva; writing credit: Jean-Jacques Beineix; Daniel Odier)

And the gloomy room just glows (That's The Way Love Is; performing artist: Bobby Darin)

And as the skies turn gloomy (Walkin' After Midnight; performing artist: Patsy Cline)

They nearly make me gloomy (It's Bad For Me; performing artist: The Roches)

What boys say to girls: What's wrong? You're looking a little sad and gloomy. What you need is some vitamin me. (references; author: unknown)

Camp Gitchy Gloomy (1965)

Gloomy Sunday - Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod (1999)

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Books

• Eeyore's Gloomy Little Instruction Book (reference)

• Gloomy (reference)

• Gloomy Gus (Walt Morey Adventure Library) (reference)

• Gloomy Gus the Hippopotamus (reference)

• Gloomy Louie (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Polkas for a Gloomy World (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A gloomy silence ensued

The lower she sank, the more all became gloomy around her, the more the sweet little angel shone out in the bottom of her heart

It would be a gloomy secret night

The low light of the lantern made gloomy shadows in the car.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Russia

These expectation of attractive business prospects in Russia have begun to spark renewed interest among many foreign firms, which had backed away from the Russian market in response to gloomy portrayals of Russian conditions. (references)

Political Economy

REPUBLIC OF KOREA

The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York and Washington added stress to an already gloomy economic picture in 2001. Real annual average economic growth rate is not expected to exceed 2 percent, with inflation expected in the 4-5 percent range. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "gloomy": be gloomy ♦ become gloomy ♦ gloomy forecast ♦ gloomy Gus ♦ gloomy prediction ♦ gloomy thoughts ♦ grow gloomy ♦ have a gloomy expression of one's face ♦ make gloomy ♦ the Gloomy Dean. Additional references.

Beginning with "gloomy": gloomy-like.

Albanian

i zymtë (black, cheerless, crepuscular, dark, depressed, dismal, dour, drab, dreary, eerie, funeral, funereal, glum, grim, heavy, leaden, macabre, mirk, mirthless, morose, mournful, muddy, murk, sad, sepulchral, somber, sombre, spleenful, stark, sulky, sullen, surly, tenebrous, winterly, wintry), i vrerët (austere, dismal), i trishtuar (blue, cheerless, comfortless, dark, disappointed, disappointing, doleful, down, dreary, elegiac, funereal, grievous, joyless, lugubrious, melancholy, minor, mirthless, miserable, mopish, mournful, pensive, rueful, sad, tristful, unhappy, vapoury, wailful, wan, wistful, woebegone, woeful, woesome), i ngrysur (dark, dismal, farouche, heavy, lowering, lugubrious, morose, saturnine, somber, sombre, sulky, sullen, woebegone), i mërzitur (annoyed, blue, bored, creepy, disgruntled, dissatisfied, down-hearted, fed up, gloomily, long-spun, moldy, monotone, monotonous, mouldy, pained), i errët (abstruse, addle, ambiguous, arcane, black, blind, cloudy, dark, darkling, darksome, deep, delphian, delphic, dim, dingy, dusky, foggy, fuscous, indeterminate, inky, low-browed, mirk, misted, muddy, murk, murky, nebulous, nigrescent, obscure, opaque, recondite, sable, sad, secret, shady, somber, sombre, tenebrous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كالح (glum, grave, grim, morose, stern, surly), ‏كئيب (bleak, blue, cheerless, damp, dark, dejected, depressed, depressing, depressive, desolate, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorous, down, downcast, down-hearted, drear, dreary, droopy, dyspeptic, funeral, funereal, glum, gray, grey, grief-stricken, grieved, grievous, heavy-hearted, ill, joyless, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, moody, mournful, out of spirits, rueful, sad, saddening, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, tearful, weary), ‏مكفهر (cloudy, dark, dusky, overcast, surly), ‏مكتئب (crestfallen, dejected, depressed, downcast, down-hearted, grieved, sad), ‏موحش (dismal, drear), ‏مورث كآبة (blue), ‏مغتم (dejected, low-spirited), ‏محزن (depressing, dismal, distressing, doleful, dolorous, grievous, mournful, pathetic, rueful, sad, saddening, sorrowful, tragic, woeful), ‏متجهم (glum, grim, morose, sulky, sullen), ‏متشائم (biliousness, black, cynic, cynical, dim, pessimistic), ‏معتم (cloud-capped, cloudy, dark, dim, dusk, dusky, murky, obscure, overcast), ‏مظلم (black, dark, dim, dun, dusk, mirk, murk, murky, obscure, overcast, tenebrous), ‏قاتم (black, cloudy, dark, deep, dim, dusky, murky, overcast, sable), ‏عابس (austere, grouchy, loiterer, morose, stern, sulky, surly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тъжен (bleak, cheerless, desolate, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, dull, dusky, elegiac, heavy, joyless, lonesome, lugubrious, melancholy, minor, mirthless, mournful, pensive, plaintive, sad, sick, sickly, sorrowful, tristful, wan, wistful, woebegone, woeful), навъсен (beetle-browed, glum, lowering, morose, murky, saturnine, somber, sombre, surly), мрачен (black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, darksome, dejected, depressing, dim, dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dumpish, dusky, forbidding, gaunt, glum, grave, grey, grim, grisly, heavy, inhospitable, joyless, low-browed, lowering, melancholy, mirk, morbid, morose, murk, murky, obscure, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, sunless, tenebrous, thick, tristful), меланхоличен (atrabilious, melancholic). (various references)

Chinese 

陰鬱 , 暗淡 (dim, dismal, faint), 暗 (dark, hidden, secret, to defy, to fight, to resist), 天昏地暗. (various references)

Czech

zešeřelý, zasmušilý (dull, grave, spleenful, subdued, sullen), zamraèený (cloudy, dour, grim, lowering, nubilous, overcast, sullen), trudnomyslný, temný (dark, hollow, murky, obscure, sad, shady, somber, sombre), smutný (dismal, distressing, doleful, elegiac, miserable, plaintive, sad, sorrowful, tearful, unhappy, upset, woeful, woesome), sklíèený (blue, crest-fallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, downhearted, glum, lower-spirited, low-spirited, mopish, stricken, unhappy), ponurý (black, cheerless, dark, dismal, gaunt, grim, lurid, somber, sombre), pochmurný (bleak, depressing, dismal, lugubrious, subdued), neveselý (dismal, dreary, mirthless), chmurný (dismal, drear, dreary, dull, Gray, grey, grim), bezútešný. (various references)

Dutch

troosteloos (desolate, dismal, dreary, gaunt, mournful), somber (bleak, dark, desolate, dismal, dreary, gaunt, miserable, mournful, sad, somber, sullen), naargeestig (bleak, desolate, dismal, dreary, gaunt, miserable, mournful, sad, somber, sullen). (various references)

Esperanto

morna (desolate, dismal, dreary, gaunt, mournful). (various references)

Faeroese

tyngjandi (desolate, dismal, dreary, gaunt, mournful), dapur (desolate, dismal, dreary, gaunt, mournful, sad). (various references)

Farsi 

غم افزار, تیره (Black, Caliginous, Dark, Heavy, Ilk, Indistinct, Lurid, Muddy, Murky, Nebulous, Obscure, Overcast, Thick, Turbid), تاریک (Blind, Caliginous, Dark, Dim, Dusky, Lackluster, Somber), افسرده (Deject, Glum, Hypochondriac, Pensive, Woebegone). (various references)

Finnish

synkkä (bleak, dark, desolate, dreary, moody, sullen), kolkko (desolate, dismal, dreary, gruesome, raw), jylhä (rough, rugged, wild). (various references)

French

sombre, morne (glum). (various references)

German

finster (black, blackly, dark, dim, frowning, gauntly, gloomily, glowering, gloweringly, grim, louring, loweringly, murkily, murky, obfuscatory, saturnine, shady, sinister, somber, somberly, sombre), dunkel (abstruse, black, bleak, dark, darkness, dim, dingy, dismal, dreamy, dreary, dubious, dusky, grave, lightless, murky, obscure, obscurely, obscureness, obscurity, opaque, recondite, shadily, shady, somber, somberly, sombre, swarthily, swarthy, tenebrous, vague, vaguely), düster (black, bleak, cheerless, dark, dim, dingy, dismal, drab, dreary, dusky, forbidding, frowning, funereal, funereally, gaunt, gloomily, Gray, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, murky, obscure, sad, saturnine, sepulcher, sinister, somber, somberly, sombre, sullen). (various references)

Greek 

κακόκεφοσ (downhearted), μελαγχολικός (glum), ζοφερόσ (cheerless, dismal, mirk, murk, somber, sombre, tenebrous), ζοφερός (dreary), απαισιόδοξος (pessimistic about). (various references)

Hebrew 

מושחר (blackened, darkened), מעוגם, מדוכדך (crestfallen, desolate, despondent, doldrums, down in the mouth, dumpy, glum, melancholy, somber), מדוכא (blue, dejected, depressed, down, down in the mouth, hypochondriac, liverish, morbid), קודר (black, cheerless, dark, dour, dun, gaunt, gruff, morose, murky, saturnine, sepulchral, somber, sullen, tenebrous), עכור (bemired, foul, muddy, slushy, turbid), עגום (bleak, cheerless, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dusky, funereal, morose, mournful, rueful, sorrowful, sullen), אפל (black, dark, dim, leaden, obscure, somber), אנון (mournful, sad), נוגה (disconsolate, lugubrious, sad). (various references)

Hungarian

sötét (black, black as night, collied, dark, dark-skinned, dim, doldrums, dun, dusky, funereal, gray, grey, grim, louring, loury, mirk, murk, murky, obscure, of evil omen, puke, saturnine, shady, somber, sombre, stygian, tenebrous), nyomasztó (depressing, Gray, grey, grim, grinding, heavy, leaden, mortifying, oppressive, stunning, sweltering), mélabús (melancholic, Moody, to be down in the dumps), komor (beetle brows, black, dark, darksome, dingy, dismal, funereal, gaunt, glum, louring, lowering, lugubrious, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, surly, to be down in the dumps), borús (cloudy, dim, dingy, louring, lowering, obscure, overcast). (various references)

Indonesian

muram (bilious, depressed), menggabak (dark), buram (blueprint, dark, dull, not clear, plan, sketch, unregistered). (various references)

Italian

triste (black, bleak, blue, blue-deviled, blue-devilled, cheerless, dark, dejected, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dreary, dull, dusky, gaunt, heavy, hipped, lachrymose, miserable, moody, moped, sad, somber, sombre, sorrowful, sorry, sullen, unhappy, wan, woebegone), tetro (dark, dismal, dreary, dusky, feral, lugubrious, morose, somber, sombre, sour), tenebroso (dark, dim, murky, somber, sombre), oscuro (black, dark, dim, humble, murky, obscure, somber, sombre), nero (black, dark, dire, sable, tanned), malinconico (dismal, doleful, hipped, melancholic, melancholy, morose, pensive, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, wistful, wistfully), lugubre (black, dismal, lugubrious, mournful, sad, sadly), fosco (dark, dingy, dismal, dull, grim, lurid, murky, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen), cupo (abyssal, cavernously, dark, deep, dour, hollow, morose, obscure, raucous, sulky, sullen), accigliato (dark, frowning, glum, loweringly, obfuscatory). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

暗い (dark), 愁い (sad, unhappy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うっき (melancholy), グルーミー , あんあんり (secretly, tacitly), あんたん (dark, depressing, somber), あんたんたる (dark), いんいんめつめつ, いんきくさい (dismal), ほのぐらい (obscure), けんあく (dangerous, perilous, serious, stormy, threatening), うい (perpetual change caused by karma, sad, that which is made, unhappy, vicissitudes of life), おもくるしい (awkward, cumbrous, heavy, leaden, oppressive), うっとうしい (depressing), うっくつ, うつうつたる, うつぜん (dense, thick), うすぐらい (dim), くらい (about, almost, as, at least, court order, crown, dark, dignity, enough to, grade, nobility, occupying a position, rank, rather, situation, throne), しめっぽい (damp), うれい (distress, grief, sad, sorrow, unhappy). (various references)

Korean 

침울한. (various references)

Manx

moorjeenagh, grouw (dark, dark-looking, dejected, dismal, forbidding, ghastly, glum, grim, surly), groamagh (bad-tempered, bearish, bleak, bleak of weather, cheerless, crestfallen, dejected, depressive, disagreeable, dour, forbidding, glum, grim, gruff, mopish, morose, prospects, prospects), saturnine, sombre, sorry, stern, sullen, surly), dullyr (black, black as outlook, blear, blear of outline, dim, dimness, dingy, dusky, fuzzy, gloom, lowering, muzzy, opaque), dorraghey (crepuscular, dark, dun, dusk, dusky, enigmatic, fade out, obscure), dool (blackish, dark, dark as weather). (various references)

Norwegian

dyster (glum). (various references)

Pig Latin

oomyglay.(various references)

Portuguese

tenebroso (dark, sable, stygian, tenebrous), sombrio (abstruse, adust, bleak, bowery, cheerless, cloudy, dark, darkling, darksome, dim, dingy, dismal, doleful, dreary, dun, dusk, dusky, ebon, funereal, fuscous, gaunt, gloomily, glum, grave, hard-headed, lowering, mirk, miserable, misty, morose, murk, murky, obscure, opaque, overcast, sable, sad, saturnine, shadowy, somber, sombre, stygian, umbrageous), pesado (burdensome, cumbersome, cumbrous, drab, elephantine, gross, heavy, hefty, hulking, leaden, logy, lumbering, lumping, lumpish, massive, massy, muff, muggy, onerous, oppressive, plodding, ponderous, rigourous, slowpoke, sodden, soggy, sound, stodgy, stringent, tubby, unwieldy, weighty), nebuloso (cloudy, desolate, dismal, dreary, foggy, gaunt, hazy, misty, mournful, nebulous, vaporous), melancólico (atrabilious, bleak, blue, cloudy, dark, desolate, dismal, dreary, dumpish, gaunt, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, moody, mopish, morose, mournful, mourning, pensive, sad, somber, sombre), escuro (abstruse, blackish, bock, dark, darkling, deep, dim, dimness, dismal, dusk, dusky, fuscous, inky, mirk, moonless, muddy, murk, murky, obscure, opaque, overcast, sable, somber, sombre, swart, umber), entristecedor (desolate, dismal, dreary, gaunt, mournful), carregado (cloudy, dismal, fraught, gloomily, glum, laden, live, loaded, sable, thick, undischarged). (various references)

Romanian

mocnit (dark, dull, reticent, smoldering, smouldering, taciturn), înnoptat (dark), întunecat (black, blear, blind, clouded, cloudy, dark, darkish, darksome, deep, dismal, dull, dusky, fuliginous, fuscous, glum, inky, lowering, muddy, murk, obscurely, opaque, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, tenebrous), întunecos (dark, darkish, dim, dingy, murkily, murky, obscure, shadowy, twilight), abãtut (blue, cast down, crest-fallen, dejected, depressed, disheartened, dispirited, downcast, down-hearted, downsome, dumpy, heart-heavy, heavy-hearted, in low spirits, in poor spirits, jaw-fallen, lamenting, long-faced, low, low-spirited, melancholy, mopish, sad, sick, useless), cernit (black, blackened, clouded, cloudy, dark, darkened, dim, dull, dusky, sad, somber, sombre, sullen), funebru (dismal, feral, funeral, funereal, sepulchral), înnegurat (dark, misty), melancolic (doleful, gloomily, languorously, melancholically, melancholy, pensive, pensively, sad, somber, sombre, splenetic, wistful), tenebros (dark, shadowy, tenebrous), mohorât (bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, dismal, downcast, dreary, dull, dun, grave, Gray, grey, lowering, overcast, sad), neguros (brumous, dark, foggy, misty), noros (clouded, cloudy, dark), obscur (abstruse, cloudy, confused, dark, darksome, dim, dull, entangled, foggy, indistinct, murk, obscure, obscurely, recondite, tenebrous, unknown, unnoticed), posomorât (beetle, cheerless, dark, dismal, dull, gloomily, jaw-fallen, melancholy, mopish, overcast, somber, sombre), semiobscur (dim, dusky), sumbru (black, cloudy, dark, dismal, dreary, dull, dusky, fuscous, overcast, shadowy, somber, sombre), leşietic (alkaline, grey). (various references)

Russian 

мрачный (black, bleak, cheerless, dark, darksome, dismal, dour, drear, dreary, funereal, gaunt, glum, grave, grey, grim, heavy, lugubrious, macabre, mirk, morose, mournful, murk, murky, obscure, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, tenebrous, woebegone). (various references)

Scottish

tiamhaidh (dismal, eerie, lonesome, melancholy), ogluidh, duaichnidh (ugly), dùbhlaidh. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

turoban (bleak, dour, drear, dreary, morose, overcast), sumoran (adust, atrabilious, bleak, dismal, mirk, moody, murk, sullen), oblačan (cloudy, overcast), namršten (leaden, somber, sombre), mračan (bleak, dark, darksome, dim, dusky, mirk, mirky, murk, murky, obscure, somber, sombre, tenebrous). (various references)

Spanish

tenebroso (dark, dismal, loweringly, mirk, murk, murky, obfuscatory, tenebrous). (various references)

Swedish

trist (dreary, dull, frumpish, sad, stodgy, suburban, tiresome), kuslig (creepy, dismal, eerie, eery, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, lurid, macabre, uncanny, unearthly, weird), dunkel (abstruse, cloudy, dark, darkness, deep, dim, dusk, dusky, gloom, gloominess, murky, mysterious, nebulous, obscure, obscurity, opaque, recondite, transcendental). (various references)

Turkish

sıkıcı (arid, bald, boring, burdensome, constringent, cut and dried, damnable, dead alive, disconcerting, ditch water, ditchwater, drab, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, gaunt, grave, grotty, humdrum, inanimate, insipid, irksome, oppressive, poky, ponderous, prose, prosy, slow, sluggish, soul-destroying, soulless, stodgy, stuffy, tedious, tiresome, trying, uncongenial, unexeciting, unpleasant, unreadable, unsensational, vapid, waste, watery, wearisome), loş (dusk, dusky, obscure, shadowy, shady, somber, sombre), kuruntulu (speculative, vaporous), kasvetli (black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, depressive, dismal, doleful, drear, dreary, funereal, grave, howling, lugubrious, melancholy, mopish, muzzy, pitchy, sable, sad, somber, sombre, sullen, tenebrous, waste), karanlık (clouded, dark, darkling, darkness, deep, deepness, dun, dusky, foggy, funny, funny peculiar, gloom, gloominess, inkiness, murk, murky, night, obscuration, obscure, obscurity, pitchy, shadow, shadowy, shady, somber, somberness, sombre, sombreness, tenebrous, unlit), iç karartıcı (depressing, drear, dreary, sad, somber, sombre, sullen), hüzünlü (blue, cheerless, depressing, doleful, downcast, dreary, elegiac, funereal, glum, melancholic, rueful, sad, somber, sombre, sorrowful), ümitsiz (drear, dreary, forlorn, frantic, gone, hopeless, past cure, past hope, pathetic). (various references)

Turkmen 

tutuk, зytyk (sullen). (various references)

Ukrainian

смутний (depressed, hipped), похмурий (adust, bleak, cheerless, dark, darksome, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dull, dusky, frowning, gash, gaunt, ghastly, glum, grave, gruff, hard-faced, inhospitable, lowering, macabre, mopish, mournful, murk, nightly, obscure, overcast, sable, saturnine, sepulchral, shadowy, stygian, sullen, surly, tenebrous), понурий (blue, chap-fallen, cheerless, dogged, dour, morose, murky, overcast, somber, sombre). (various references)

Vietnamese 

u sầu (adust, dismal, melancholic, melancholy), u ám (dull, heavy, murky, overcast, tenebrous), tối tăm (dark, darkly, dismal, fuliginous, murky, obscure, recondite, sunless), ảm đạm buồn rầu. (various references)

Welsh

pruddaidd (mournful, sad). (various references)

acerbam, acerbi, acerbo, acerbus, ater, ater atra atrum, atra, atrer, atrer, atra, atrum, atriorum, caliginoso, caligosum, maesti, maestum, maestus, tenebrosa, tenebrosam, tenebrosas, tenebrosi, tenebrosis, tenebroso, tenebrosum, tenebrosus, triste, tristem, tristemque, tristes, tristior, tristis, turbidam, turbido. (various references)

sombre. (various references)

Misspellings

"Gloomy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gliom, Glocon, glomb, Glomo, glomy, gloon, gloony, glopy, glotony, glumey, glumy, gluom, golom, Golomb, goolmy, Goulmy, groomy, ileotomy, loommy, loomy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: gloom, ology.

-2 letters: glom, logo, logy, loom, moly, mool.

-3 letters: goo, goy, gym, log, loo, mog, mol, moo, yom.

-4 letters: go, lo, mo, my, om, oy, yo.

+1 letter: myology.

+2 letters: gemology, gloomily, hologamy, homology, menology, misology, mixology, monology, mycology, myologic, nomology, pomology, zymology.

+3 letters: cosmology, etymology, gemmology, hymnology, limnology, logomachy, metrology, museology, myoglobin, myologies, mythology, polygonum, semiology, symbology.

+4 letters: cohomology, demonology, embryology, entomology, enzymology, hematology, immunology, longsomely, malacology, missiology, morphology, musicology, mycologies, mycologist, myoglobins, mythologer, mythologic, nematology, numerology, orismology, polygamous, polygonums, seismology, semeiology, somatology, zymologies.