From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishahead of your/its timeahead of your/its timehaving or using the most advanced ideas, methods, designs, technology etc Coleridge was far ahead of his time in his understanding of the unconscious. → time
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ahead of your/its time• Sketchpad was not only the first drawing program, but was arguably the best, absurdly ahead of its time.• Of course, Pollock's historicism can he misleading, particularly when it implies that art can be ahead of its time.• The musical was ahead of its time in several ways.• Hyde Park was a school way ahead of its time.• The idea was way ahead of its time.• Well ahead of its time, Adamson's first album remains his best.• It was about 70 years ahead of its time in its feminism and its poetics, so this is its time.• Considered 33 years later, that ad was light-years ahead of its time. 