Social Security Retirement and Survivors Benefits. As of 2012, if youâre not at full retirement age, you can earn up to $14,640 per year without the SSA reducing your retirement or survivors benefits. Your benefits are reduced $1 for every $2 you make over this limit.
Synonym Discussion of contradictory. opposite, contradictory, contrary, antithetical mean being so far apart as to be or seem irreconcilable. opposite applies to things in sharp contrast or in conflict opposite views on foreign aid.
Contemporary Examples. 1  The very phrase Jewish philosophy seemed to me, in a very deep way, something of a contradiction in terms. 2  In the process, Republicans will need to confront a contradiction at the heart of their coalition. 3  Tilda Swinton is a paradox, a contradiction, a still point at which opposites converge.