cripple; disabled person; invalid
Derogatory term for a person with a severe physical disability. Offensive in modern usage; avoid in polite conversation.
He became a hopeless online-game addict.
After losing his leg in the accident, he was treated like a cripple by those around him.
Internet slang, derogatory. Used as a suffix to describe someone hopelessly addicted to an activity, especially online games or the internet. Often seen in compounds like ネトゲ廃人 (online game addict).
See also: ネトゲ廃人
He plays games for over 12 hours every day; he's a total online game addict.
Lately the number of smartphone addicts has been increasing.
中毒 names the state of addiction itself, while 廃人 (as a suffix) describes a person who has been ruined by that addiction.
ジャンキー is a casual loanword for an addict, while 廃人 is a harsher, more literary/net-slang term implying the person is completely wrecked by the habit.
俳人 (はいじん) means 'haiku poet' and is pronounced identically to 廃人 (はいじん), but the two share no meaning at all.
counter for people
online game addict; person whose life is consumed by online gaming
Standard kanji spelling for both senses.
Rarely used kanji form.
Compound of 廃 (hai, 'abolish, ruin') and 人 (jin, 'person'). Literally 'ruined person'. The slang suffix usage extends the idea of being ruined by an addiction.