ahead of one's time

ahead of one's time

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

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: سابق عصره‎ m (sabiq as'rih), سابقة عصرها‎ f (sabiqat as'riha), سابقون عصرهم‎ m pl (sabiqoon as'rihom), سابقات عصرهن‎ f pl (sabiqat as'rihin) Chinese: Mandarin: 先見之明 (zh), 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

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