ahead of one's time

English

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

ahead of one's time

1. (idiomatic) In advance of concurrent commonly accepted ideas; showing characteristics of changes yet to be; present in one's work before later advances in the field.
   • 1990: Ken Frieden, Freud’s dream of interpretation, SUNY Press, 1990, →ISBN, 9780791401248, page 135.

     With his practice of dream interpretation by free association, Freud was both ahead of his time and behind his time.

Antonyms

• before one's time
• behind one’s time

Translations

in advance of commonly accepted ideas

• Arabic: سَابِق عَصْرِه m (sābiq ʕaṣrih)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 先見之明／先见之明 (zh) (xiānjiànzhīmíng), 先见之明 (zh) (xiānjiànzhīmíng)

• Danish: forud for sin tid
• Dutch: zijn tijd vooruit, zijn tijd ver vooruit
• Finnish: aikaansa edellä
• French: en avance sur son temps
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• Hebrew: הִקְדִּים אֶת זְמַנּוֹ (hiqdím et zmanó)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forut for sin tid

  Nynorsk: forut for si tid

• Portuguese: à frente de seu tempo
• Swedish: före sin tid