I would expand your definition of "monadic" to:
"able to syntactically transformed so as to be put in a sequence where an
operation can be altered by the results of the operations preceeding it".
IMO your definition matches more "applicative".

2010/6/18 Alexander Solla <[email protected]>

>
> On Jun 17, 2010, at 9:44 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote:
>
>  While we're on the topic, does anyone else get funny looks when they say
>> "monads"?
>>
>
> Yes, almost every time.  They seem to catch on if I say "monadic" when I
> mean "able to syntactically transformed so as to be put in a sequence".
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