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.
A contradictory statement is one that says two things that cannot both be true. An example: My sister is jealous of me because I'm an only child. Contradictory is related to the verb contradict, which means to say or do the opposite, and contrary, which means to take an opposite view. When witnesses give contradictory accounts of crimesâone saying the assailant had a knife and the other a gunâpolice officers often assume that at least one of the witnesses is lying. Thesaurus.