# Negative prompts
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Negative prompts, represented by the `negativeText` parameter, can be surprisingly useful. Use negative prompts to exclude objects or style characteristics that might otherwise naturally occur as a result of your main prompt. Here is an example.

**Prompt:** *"whimsical and ethereal soft-shaded story illustration: A woman in a large hat stands at the ship's railing looking out across the ocean"*

**Without a negative prompt**

![\[whimsical and ethereal soft-shaded story illustration: A woman in a large hat stands at the ship's railing looking out across the ocean\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/nova/latest/userguide/images/image_1.png)


**With the negative prompt** "waves, clouds"

![\[Previous image with the negative prompt "waves, clouds"\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/nova/latest/userguide/images/image_1(1).png)