Indistinct farm animal almost comes in close (7)
I believe the answer is:
nebular
'indistinct' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'farm animal almost comes in close' is the wordplay.
'farm animal' becomes 'bull' (bull is an example).
'almost' means to remove the last letter (almost the whole word is kept).
'comes in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'close' becomes 'near' (synonyms).
'bull' with its last letter taken away is 'bul'.
'bul' going into 'near' is 'NEBULAR'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for nebular that I've seen before include "Ran blue (anag)" , "Like a cloud (in space)" , "Like clouds" , "Misty" , "Catch fire" .)
