Negative Prompts: The Complete List for Better AI Images

Negative prompts tell the AI what to avoid. Without them, you'll often get: extra fingers, distorted faces, blurry backgrounds, and unwanted text. A good negative prompt is as important as the main prompt.

Works with almost any model:

worst quality, low quality, blurry, deformed, ugly, bad anatomy, bad hands, extra fingers, missing fingers, extra limbs, disfigured, poorly drawn face, mutated, bad proportions, gross proportions, text, watermark, signature, username

worst quality, low quality, blurry, deformed, ugly, bad anatomy, bad hands, extra fingers, missing fingers, cartoon, anime, illustration, painting, drawing, CGI, 3D render, overexposed, underexposed, oversaturated, grainy noise, cropped, out of frame, text, watermark

worst quality, low quality, blurry, bad anatomy, extra fingers, poorly drawn hands, poorly drawn face, mutation, deformed, ugly, photorealistic, 3D, CGI, sketch, rough, monochrome, text, watermark, signature

worst quality, low quality, blurry, distorted product, wrong colors, shadows on product, busy background, text overlay, watermark, people, hands, multiple products, cluttered, low resolution

• Use (keyword:1.3) to emphasize avoidance of specific problems (SDXL/CivitAI models)
• Flux models respond less to negative prompts — focus on the positive prompt instead
• Don't make negative prompts too long — 30-50 words is optimal
• If faces look wrong, add bad face, asymmetric eyes, cross-eyed