To provide a silver halide photographic sensitive material less liable to pressure fog in a processing solution in processing using an automatic procession machine, nearly free of the falling of a matting agent from the film surface in various conveyance equipments and in processing using the processing machine and capable of exhibiting the above effects particularly even in processing with a processing solution not containing a hardening agent and in processing using an automatic processing machine with a heat roller drying unit and to provide a processing method for the sensitive material.

The silver halide photographic sensitive material has a photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a non-photosensitive hydrophilic colloidal layer on the base, contains a matting agent obtained by copolymerizing a nonionic ethylenically unsaturated monomer with an ethylenically unsaturated monomer other than an anionic monomer in the silver halide emulsion layer or the hydrophilic colloidal layer and also contains a vinylsulfone compound.