A silver halide photographic material including at least one methine dye represented by the following general formula (I) and at least one coupler represented by the following general formula (XX): ##STR00001## wherein X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 each represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a selenium atom, a tellurium atom, or a nitrogen atom; Y.sup.1 represents a furan, pyrrole or thiophene ring which may be condensed with another 5- or 6-membered carbon ring or heterocycle or may have a substituent group; Y.sup.2 represents an atomic group necessary for forming a benzene ring or a 5- or 6-membered unsaturated heterocycle, which may be further condensed with another 5- or 6-membered carbon ring or heterocycle or may have a substituent group; a bond between two carbon atoms by which Y.sup.1 and Y.sup.2 are each condensed with the carbon ring or the heterocycle may be a single bond or a double bond; R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, aryl or heterocyclic group; L.sup.1, L.sup.2 and L.sup.3 each represents a methine group; n.sup.1 represents 0 or 1; M.sup.1 represents a counter ion; and m.sup.1 represents a number of 0 or more necessary for neutralizing a charge in a molecule; ##STR00002## wherein Q.sup.5 represents a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group; Q.sup.6 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group; Q.sup.7 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkoxyl group or an alkyl group; and X represents a hydrogen atom or a group to be released by a reaction with an oxidant of a developing agent.